And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert; That mercy, which fierce fire, and iron, extends, - Hub. Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eyes, For all the treasure that thine uncle owns! Yet I am sworn, and I did purpose, boy, With this same very iron to burn them out. Arth. O, now you look like Hubert! all this while You were disguised. Hub. Peace: no more: adieu! Your uncle must not know but you are dead: Arth. O Heaven! -I thank you, Hubert. Hub. Silence: no more. Go closely in with me: Much danger do I undergo for thee. LESSON LXXXVI. RULE V. INFLECTIONS OF THE VOICE. Whenever a sentence requires the tones of mockery, sarcasm, or irony, the circumflex or wave should be used. EXAMPLES. Queen. Hamlet, you have your father much offended. Ges. Ha! Beware! Think on thy chains. Tell. Though they were doubled, and did weigh me down Prostrate to earth, methinks I could rise up Erect, with nothing but the honest pride Of telling thee, usurper, to thy teeth, Thou art a monster! Think upon my chains! Think on my chains! Think on my chains! Ges. Darest thou question me? Tell. Darest thou not answer? Ges. Beware my vengeance. Tell. Can it more than kill? Ges. Enough it can do that. It cannot take away the grace of life, Its rich attire of honorable deeds, Its fair report, that's rife on good men's tongues; Than it can pluck his brightness from the sun, Ges. But it can make thee writhe. Tell. It may. Ges. And groan. Tell. It may; and I may cry, Go on, though it should make me groan again. Ges. Whence comest thou? Tell. From the mountains. What news from them? Ges. Canst tell me any? Tell. Ay: Wouldst thou learn They watch no more the avalanche. Ges. Why so? Tell. Because they look for thee. The hurricane Comes unawares upon them; from its bed The torrent breaks, and finds them in its track. Ges. Tell. Thank Heaven it is not thou! Thou hast perverted nature in them. The earth While those they have, they see grow up and flourish, As they were things a deadly plague had smit. There's not a blessing Heaven vouchsafes them, but The thought of thee doth wither to a curse, As something they must lose, and richer were Ges. That's right! I'd have them like their hills, Tell. But they do sometimes smile. Tell. When they do talk of vengeance. Ges. Vengeance? Dare They talk of that? Tell. Ay, and expect it, too. RULE VI. In solemn and sublime passages, the monotone should be used, to give force and dignity to the expression. EXAMPLES. High on a throne of royal state, which fär Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, On the Value of Time to Man. YOUNG. NIGHT, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. Is wise in man. To give it then a tongue, As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? with the years beyond the flood. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? Triumphantly distressed! what joy, what dread! What can preserve my life, or what destroy? |