stances. helpful. Some general considerations, however, will be In love, sympathy, devotion, and kindred feelings, the voice is usually inclined to high pitch, the eyes have a gentle luster, and a smile plays about the lips. In gravity the eyebrows are lowered, the lips shut firmly and the eyes apparently rest on vacancy. Surprise, wonder, and amazement are indicated by elevated eyebrows, open eyes and mouth, and aspirated voice. In tranquillity, the eyes are mild, the face composed, and the body in repose. In anxiety, dejection, and grief, there is a downward contraction of the facial muscles and relaxation of the body. In sorrow and grief the corners of the mouth are drawn down. Violent grief often vents itself in beating the head with the hands, stamping the feet, and running about distracted. In fear the voice is weak and trembling, the lips, face and body shake, and the heart beats violently. Shyness is indicated by side glances. Pride is manifest in a lofty look, erect head, firm body, open eyes, and sometimes with lower lip protruded. In courage the figure is erect and free in its movements, and the voice full and firm. EXAMPLES ADMIRATION What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! "Hamlet." SHAKESPEARE. ADMONITION Remember March, the Ides of March remember! SHAKESPEARE. ANGER And dar'st thou, then, to beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go? No! by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no! "Marmion." APPEAL SCOTT. Arthur. Oh, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out, Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men! "King John." AWE SHAKESPEARE. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, "Night Thoughts." YOUNG. COMMAND "Halt!"-the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Barbara Frietchie." COURAGE WHITTIER. He shuddered, set teeth, kept silence. The women were slain before him, And he stood and he saw them die. "The Ballad of Splendid Silence." COWARDICE Acres. No, I say we won't run by my valor! Sir Lucius. What the devil's the matter with you? NESBIT. Acres. Nothing, nothing, my dear friend-my dear Sir Lucius-but-I-I-I don't feel quite so bold, somehow, as I did. Sir L. Oh, fie! consider your honor. Acres. Ay, true-my honor-do, Sir Lucius, edge in a word or two, every now and then, about my honor. Sir L. Well, here they're coming. Acres. Sir Lucius, if I weren't with you, I would almost think I was afraid-if my valor should leave me! valor will come and go. "The Rivals." SHERIDAN. DEFIANCE Blaze, with your serried columns! I will not bend the knee! The shackles ne'er again shall bind And where it falls, ye well may dread "The Seminole's Reply." GEORGE W. PATTEN. EXASPERATION Oh! the side glance of that detested eye! EXULTATION Go ring the bells and fire the guns, GLADNESS BAILLIE. WHITTIER. Now the laughing, jolly Spring began to show her buxom face in the bright morning. The buds began slowly to expand their close winter folds, the dark and melancholy woods to assume an almost imperceptible purple tint; and here and there a little chirping bluebird hopped about the orchards. Strips of fresh green appeared along the brooks, now released from their icy fetters; and nests of little variegated flowers, nameless, yet richly deserving a name, sprang up in the sheltered recesses of the leafless woods. HATRED Stay there, or I'll proclaim you to the house and the whole street! If you try to evade me, I'll stop you, if it's by the hair and raise the very stones against you. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; LONGFELLOW. INDIGNANT COMMAND "Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting. "Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of the lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken, quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" "The Raven." Quoth the raven: "Nevermore!" JOY Then, sing ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song! As to the tabor's sound! We, in thought, will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day "Intimations of Immortality." PATRIOTISM Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand POE. WORDSWORTH. Between our loved home and the war's desolation; Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land RESIGNATION Forever and forever, all in a blessed home, KEY. And there to wait a little while, till you and Effie come, "May Queen." TENNYSON. |