[Horror and remorse. Aspirated pectoral and guttural quality.] Seemed lit with ghastly flame ;- O God! it made me quake to see For every clot, a burning spot And now, from forth the frowning sky, I heard a voice-the awful voice [Horror and fear. 6. MACBETH. HOOD. Intense suppressed force; prevailing monotone; very slow movement; strong aspirated quality.] Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dèad; and wicked dreams abūse Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, Moves like a ghòst.—Thōu sūre and firm-set earth! And take the present hörror from the time 7. DARIUS GREEN AND HIS FLYING MACHINE. [Secrecy. Forcible whisper and half-whisper.] And one by one, through a hole in the wall, And Reuben slid The fastenings back, and the door undid. "Keep dark!" said he, "While I squint an' see what the' is to see." "Hush!" Reuben said, He's up in the shed! He's opened the winder-I see his head! Guess he don' o' who's hid in here! An' that 't other thing? I vum, it's a tail! Steppin' careful, he travels the length Of his spring-board, and teeters to try its strength. Now he stretches his wings, like a monstrous bat; Peeks over his shoulder, this way an' that, Fer to see 'f there's any one passin' by; But there's on'y a ca'f an' a goslin' nigh. To the ground with a thump, TROWBRIDGE. SPECIAL ASPIRATE DRILL. [In pronouncing the following words having the combination hw, the aspiration is often very feebly given or not given at all. Sound the hw with marked force.] [Keep the lungs well filled with air and exhaust the breath upon each word.] The guttural, or throat, quality is the harsh, grating, rasping utterance to which the voice tends in the expression of hatred, contempt, revenge, and loathing. It is often combined with aspirated quality in the expression of extreme impatience or disgust, intense rage, and extreme contempt. EXAMPLES. 1. OTHELLO. Oh, that the slave had forty thousand lives, You shall die, base dog! and that before Signior Antonio, many a time and óft, And all for use of that which is mine dwn. Shylock, we would have moneys;" you say sò; A cur can lend thrée thousand dúcats?" or Say this: "Fair sír, you spât on me on Wednesday lást; V. THE FALSETTO. The falsetto is the thin, sharp, high-pitched tone produced when the voice breaks, or gets above its natural compass. It is used by men when they imitate the voices of women and children. It is the tone suitable for the expression of old age, sickness, feebleness, pain, and helpless terror. 1. " My child! my child!" with sobs and tears, 2. " Billy-where are you, Billy, I say? Come, Billy, come home to your best of mothers!" 3. And even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried, “Hurrah!” 4. Mr. Orator Puff had two tones in his voice, The one squeaking thus, and the other down so; In each sentence he uttered he gave you your choice; For one half was B alt, and the rest G below. Oh oh Orator Puff, One voice for an orator's surely enough! "Oh! save!" he exclaimed, in his he-and-she tones, "Help me out! help me out! I have broken my bones!" "Help you out!" said a stranger, who passed, "what a bother! Why, there's two of you there; can't you help one another?" Oh! oh! Orator Puff, One voice for an orator's surely enough! |