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3. Heavy. The forte and fortissimo of music-used in command, exultation, denunciation, etc.:

メ

1.

Stand! the ground's your own, my braves,
Will ye give it up to slaves?

Will

ye look for greener graves?
Hope ye mercy still?

What's the mercy despots feel?
Hear it in that battle peal,
Read it on yon bristling steel,
Ask it, ye who will!

2.

I scorn forgiveness, haughty man!
You've injured me before the clan;
And nought but blood shall wipe away

The shame I have endured this day.

Pierpont.

4. Crescendo A gradually increasing volume of voice.

But lo! he is nearing his heart's desire

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He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away.

Read.

5. Diminuendo. A gradually decreasing volume of voice:

The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low.

2. VARIATIONS OF FORCE, OR Stress.

1. Radical

Mackay.

An explosive force upon the opening of

the vowel; used in lively description, command, fear, etc.:

1.

There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower,

There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree,
There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower,
And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea!

Bryant.

2.

Talk not to me of odds or match!

When Comyn died, three daggers clashed within
His side. Talk not to me of sheltering hall!
The Church of God saw Comyn fall!
On God's own altar streamed his blood;
While o'er my prostrate kinsman stood
The ruthless murderer, even as now,—
With armed hand and scornful brow.
Up! all who love me! blow on, blow!
And lay the outlawed felon low!

2. Final

Scott.

An explosive force upon the closing of the

vowel; used in expressing determination, doggedness, disgust, etc.:

1.

A breath of submission we breathe not:

The sword we have drawn we will sheathe not!

2.

I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.
I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,
To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
To Christian intercessors. Follow not:

I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.

3.

Campbell.

Shakspeare.

You may, if it be God's will, gain our barren and rugged mountains. But, like our ancestors of old, we will seek refuge in wilder and more distant solitudes; and when we have resisted to the last, we will starve in the icy wastes of the glaziers. Aye! men, women and children, we will be frozen into annihilation together, ere one free Switzer will acknowledge a foreign master.

3. Median

A swell of the voice upon the mid

dle of the yowel; used in the language of grandeur, sublimity, etc.:

1.

O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty: the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave.

2.

Hear the mellow wedding bells,

Golden bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night,

How they ring out their delight!
From the molten golden notes,
And all in tune,

What a liquid ditty floats

To the turtle dove, that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!

Oh! from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells,
How it swells!

How it dwells!

On the future!-how it tells
Of the rapture that impels

To the swinging and the ringing

Of the bells,

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

3.

Ossian.

Poe.

Oh! sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth; make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp and the voice of a psalm.

Bible.

4. Thorough An explosive force throughout the vowel, used in emphatic command, braggadocio, etc. :

1.

Come one, come all, this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.

Scott.

2.

"Go," cried the mayor, "and get long poles!
Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
Consult with carpenters and builders,

And leave in our town not even a trace
Of the rats!

Robert Browning.

5. Compound x An explosive force upon the opening and closing of the vowel, indicating surprise:

1.

Gone to swear a peace!

Gone to be married!
False blood to false blood joined!

Gone to be friends!

Shall Lewis have Blanche, and Blanche these provinces ?

2.

Julia. Why do you think I'll work?

Duke. I think 'twill happen, wife.

Julia. What, rub and scrub your noble palace clean?
Duke. Those taper fingers will do it daintly.

Shakspeare.

Julia. And dress your victuals (if there be any)? O,

mad.

6. Tremulous

I shall go

Tobin.

A waving movement of voice, used

in expressing excessive joy, grief, fear, old age, etc.:

1.

Oh! then, I see queen Mab hath been with you.
She comes

In shape no bigger than an agate stone,

On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn by a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses, as they lie asleep;

Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs;
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
The traces, of the smallest spider's web;

The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams;
Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash of film;
Her wagoner, a small gray-coated gnat;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub,
Time out of mind the fairies' coachmakers.

And in this state she gallops, night by night,
Through lover's brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream:
Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail,
Tickling a parson's nose, as he lies asleep,
Then dreams he of another benefice:
Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear; at which he starts and wakes;
And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two,
And sleeps again.

Shakspeare

O, Christ of the seven wounds, who look'st thro' the dark
To the face of thy mother! consider I pray,

How we common mothers stand desolate, mark,

Whose sons not being Christ's, die with eyes turned away,
And no last word to say!

3.

The little girl slid off his knee,

And all of a tremble stood.

"Good wife," he cried, "come out and see,

The skies are as red as blood."

"God save us !" cried the settler's wife,

"The prairie's a-fire, we must run for life!"

The pupil will determine the quality, degree of force and stress to be used in giving the following examples, also giving names of authors:

1.

The good ship Union's voyage is o'er,

At anchor safe she swings,

And loud and clear with cheer on cheer
Her joyous welcome rings: