A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . Striking, st, Fig. 90. When the whole fore-arm, andthe hand along with it, descend from a higher elevationrapidly, and with a degree of force like a stroke whichis arrested, when it has struck what it was aimedagainst. Recoiling, re, Fig. 91. When after a stroke, as inthe former gesture, the arm and hand return to theposition whence they proceeded. * The late John Kemble, says Mr. Austin, used the double sweep,with fine effect, on these words : The play s the thingWherein I
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . Striking, st, Fig. 90. When the whole fore-arm, andthe hand along with it, descend from a higher elevationrapidly, and with a degree of force like a stroke whichis arrested, when it has struck what it was aimedagainst. Recoiling, re, Fig. 91. When after a stroke, as inthe former gesture, the arm and hand return to theposition whence they proceeded. * The late John Kemble, says Mr. Austin, used the double sweep,with fine effect, on these words : The play s the thingWherein I 11 catch the conscience of the king. — Hamlet. GESTURE. 103 Advancing, ad. When the hand, being first moveddownwards and backwards, in order to obtain greaterspace for action, is then moved regularly forwards, andraised as high as the horizontal position, a step being,at the same time, made in advance, to aid the action. Springing, sp. When the hand, having nearly ar-rived at the intended limit of gesture, flies suddenly upto it by a quick motion of the wrist, like the blade of apocket-knife, when it suddenly and
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