CHAPTER VII.

MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES.

MPHASIS:

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Who [reverenced his consciencel as his king:
Whose glory was redressing human wrong,
Who spake no slander,―no, nor listened to it,
Who loved one only and who clave to her.

Psychological positives and negatives:

-Tennyson.

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Wolsey. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my great

ness!

This is the state of man]: To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors] thick upon him:
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ;
And when he thinks (good easy man) full surely
His greatness is a ripening-nips his root,

And then he falls, as I do.

Psy. pos. and neg.:

-Henry VIII., Act 3, Sc. 2.

Lady M. Infirm of purpose! (Pos. and neg.) Give me the daggers: the sleeping, and the dead, Are but as pictures ;* 'tis the eye of childhood, That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, (asp. as in

secrecy)

I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,

For it must seem their guilt.

Psy. pos. and neg.:
Psy.pos.

-Macbeth.

Por. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripplel. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband :—O me, the word choose! I may neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curb'd by the will of a dead father :-- Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none? -Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Sc. 2.

Here is an example from "Measure for Measure" of the positive and negative attitudes of mind of the

* Simile in quick time.

speakers with regard to the thoughts they express. The duke says, "Be absolute for death,"-make up your mind to die, and then in either event, whether death which it is natural to fear come, or life which is sweet, you will be resigned:—

Enter Duke, Claudio, and Provost.

Duke. So, then you hope of pardon from lord Angelo?

Claud. The miserable have no other medicine,

But only hopel:

I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.

Duke. Be absolute for death; either death, or lite, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing

That none but fools would keep a breath] thou art, (Servile to all the skyey influences,)

That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;

For him thou labor'st by thy flight to shun,

And yet runst toward him still: Thou art not [noble]; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st,

Are nursed by baseness: Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork

Of a poor worm: Thy best of rest is sleep,

And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;
For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
That issue out of dust; Happy thou art not;

For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get
And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain;
For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
After the moon: If thou art rich, thou art poor;
For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows],
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee: Friend hast thou none;
For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
The mere effusion of thy proper loins,

Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,

For ending thee no sooner: Thou hast nor youth, nor

age,

But, as it were, an lafter-dinner's sleep),

Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
Becomes as aged, and doth beg the arms

Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich,

Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,

To make thy riches pleasant.

That bears the name of life?

What's yet in this,

Yet in this life

Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear,
That makes these odds all even.

Claud. I humbly thank you.

To sue to live, I find, I seek to die;

And seeking death, find life: Let it come on.

An exercise on varied intonations from "As you like it":

Enter Rosalind, Celia, and Jacques.

Jaq. I pr'ythee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee.

Ros. They say you are a melancholy fellow.

Jaq. I am so I do love it better than laughing.

Ros. Those, that are in extremity of either, are abominable fellows; and betray themselves to every modern censure, worse than drunkards.

Jaq. Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.
Ros. Why, then 'tis good to be a post.

Jaq. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects; and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of travels in which my often rumination wraps me, is a most humorous sadness.

Ros. A traveler! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad I fear, you have sold your own lands, to see other men's; then, to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

The practice of varied forms, simply in the requisition of the manner, will be the education of the ear, both for the purposes of "accuracy" and "analysis."

The aspirate slightly given on "emulation" to denote eagerness, a dwelling on the vowel sounds in "fantastical," mark the peculiarity. On the next (proud), the, which gives dignity, the frequent result of pride. Aspirate on Aspirate on "ambitious." Wave of the voice on "politic," to mark the lawyer's insinuating manner. Accent the consonants in "lady's" and "nice," to mark precision, "nattyness." Strong emphasis to "all" is speaking of the lover's melancholy.