A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . the emphatic gesture. It will be recollectedthat contracting and retracting gestures are reckonedamongthesus- Di 20 pending ges-tures, as be-ing made pre-vious to someforcible 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 prepara-tory gesture nefb
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . the emphatic gesture. It will be recollectedthat contracting and retracting gestures are reckonedamongthesus- Di 20 pending ges-tures, as be-ing made pre-vious to someforcible 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 prepara-tory gesture nefbn —, as in the following example : Ti ef b n— shf st — Hear me for my cause.* — Shakspeare. susp. emph. An example of a preparatory contracting gesture: Langhorne. A gesture across, which passes rapidly to the ex-tended position, may also be used as a preparation foirejection > * The letters, nef bn, signify, natural elevated forwards bendingshf st, supine horizontal forwards striking. j- The letters, vhfrt, signify, vertical horizontal forward retractLag.; vhfrj, vertical horizontal forwards vhfrt — vhfrj — I hate the drums discordant 116 ELOCUTION. ohc i rj Whos here so base that would be a bondman?*— example of a previous contracted gesture: Bvhfrt To hear the roar she sends through all her gates.— Cowp. In 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: Bvhfrt BvJifp Bvhx To hear the roar she sends through all her But the former method is pref
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