. The practical elocutionist; an extensive collection of recitations, selected & arranged expressly for school use, with a few plain rules for inflection, modulation, gesture and action, and rhetorical punctuation ... e his deep obliga-tions to William Creswick, Esq., for several valuablesuggestions in the remarks on Gesture and Action. Rhetorical Punctuation. The following simple and useful rules are extractedfrom Mr. Walkers Rhetorical Grammar. The pauseis to be made on the word immediately preceding theslanting line, thus /. RULE I. When a nominative consists of more than one word,it is nec
. The practical elocutionist; an extensive collection of recitations, selected & arranged expressly for school use, with a few plain rules for inflection, modulation, gesture and action, and rhetorical punctuation ... e his deep obliga-tions to William Creswick, Esq., for several valuablesuggestions in the remarks on Gesture and Action. Rhetorical Punctuation. The following simple and useful rules are extractedfrom Mr. Walkers Rhetorical Grammar. The pauseis to be made on the word immediately preceding theslanting line, thus /. RULE I. When a nominative consists of more than one word,it is necessary to pause after it. Example. The great and invincible Alexander,/ wept for the fate ofDarius. RULE II. Whatever member intervenes between the nomina-tive case and the verb, is of the nature of a parenthesis,and must be separated from both of them, by a shortpause. Example. Money,/ like manure,/ does no good till it is spread. * Quintilian mentions having seen actors, who, afterperforming pathetic characters, wept and sobbed for a longtime after they had laid aside their masks. Vidi ego ssepe histriones atque comcedos, cum exaliquo graviore actu personam deposuissent, flentes adhucegredi, INTKODUCTION. 13. INTRODUCTION. 15 RULE III. Whatever member intervenes between the verb andthe accusative case, is of the nature of a parenthesis,and must be separated from both by a short pause. Example. I knew a person who possessed the faculty of distin-guishing flavours in so great a perfection, that, after havingtasted ten different kinds of tea, he could distinguish,/—without seeing the colour of it,/—the particular sort whichwas offered him. Addison. RULE IV. Whatever words are put into the case absolute, mustfee separated from the rest by a pause. Example. If a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt,or die,/ the owner thereof being with it,/—he shall surelymake it good. RULE V. Words or phrases in apposition, or when the latteronly explain the former,—have a sh
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