A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . 12 it were, with his hand reversed, to banish that cruel and afflicting recollection. (Fig. 113.) The significant gestures, how-ever numerous and correct, whicha great actor makes in the repre-sentation of an entire dramatic^character, bear no proportion to^the number of those gestureswhich do not belong to this class,and which are no less necessary,though they are not so splendidand imposing. The painter isstruck by the boldest and finestof the significant gestur
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . 12 it were, with his hand reversed, to banish that cruel and afflicting recollection. (Fig. 113.) The significant gestures, how-ever numerous and correct, whicha great actor makes in the repre-sentation of an entire dramatic^character, bear no proportion to^the number of those gestureswhich do not belong to this class,and which are no less necessary,though they are not so splendidand imposing. The painter isstruck by the boldest and finestof the significant gestures, which are called attitudes;and he records them: they are the proper objects ofhis art; they are striking, and less evanescent than theother gestures which pass unnoticed by him, althoughthey make up by far the greater and more importantpart of the gestures requisite for illustrating the senti-ments. These less prominent gestures give to the de-clamation its precision and force. A slight movementof the head, a look of the eye, a turn of the hand, a ju-dicious pause, or interruption of gesture, or a changeof position in the fe
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