. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . oke of the emphatic gesture. It will be recollectedthat contracting and retracting gestures are reckonedamongthesus- JW. 20. pending ges-tures, as be-ing made pre-vious to someforcib^a ef-fort, and are,therefore, pre-paratory tothe gestureswhich order to il-lustrate whatis here ad-vanced, let itbe supposedthat the em-phatic ges-ture requiresa strong per-cussion of the arm descending forwards, as shfst—-the preparation for this is the suspending, or preparetory gesture nefbn —, as in the following example: Shakspeare. An example of a prepa
. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . oke of the emphatic gesture. It will be recollectedthat contracting and retracting gestures are reckonedamongthesus- JW. 20. pending ges-tures, as be-ing made pre-vious to someforcib^a ef-fort, and are,therefore, pre-paratory tothe gestureswhich order to il-lustrate whatis here ad-vanced, let itbe supposedthat the em-phatic ges-ture requiresa strong per-cussion of the arm descending forwards, as shfst—-the preparation for this is the suspending, or preparetory gesture nefbn —, as in the following example: Shakspeare. An example of a preparatory contracting gesture: vhfrt — vhf rj — I hate the drums discordant — Langhorne. A gesture across, which passes rapidly to the extended position, may also be used as a preparation foirejection: * The letters, nefbn, signify, natural elevated forwards bendingshfst, supine horizontal forwards striking. ?J- The letters, vhfrt, signify, vertical horizontal forward retracting; vhfrj, vertical horizontal forwards nefbn— shf st — Hear me for my cause # susp. emph. 1J 6 ELOCUTION. ohc z rj Whos here so base that would be a bondman?*— example of a previous contracted gesture: Bvhfrt To hear the roar she sends through ail her gates.— Cowp. Tn the passage from Cowper, the suspending, or previous gesture,Bvhfrj, contains all the letters belonging to the subsequent em-phatic gesture, except the last (p). This new letter, only, is ex-pressed, and is joined by a long dash, or mark of connexion, withthe notation letters of the preceding gesture : another line of con-nexion, joining this letter to x, signifies that both hands continuingin the same position, viz. vertical, the arms are to be extended. Thegestures, marked at large on this line, would be as follows: Bvlif rt Bvhff ? Bvhx To hear the roar she sends through all her But the former method is preferable, as it abridges the trouble olnotation, and is equally intelligible. T
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