. 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 ... in con-tradistinction to others, or when giving utterance tosome pathetic sentiment, the right hand should beplaced on the left breast. AVhen anything low is men-tioned, the eye and hand should be directed is almost impossible to give minute instructions tomeet every case; but, as a general rule, the action andutterance should be strictly in unison with the senti-men
. 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 ... in con-tradistinction to others, or when giving utterance tosome pathetic sentiment, the right hand should beplaced on the left breast. AVhen anything low is men-tioned, the eye and hand should be directed is almost impossible to give minute instructions tomeet every case; but, as a general rule, the action andutterance should be strictly in unison with the senti-ment uttered. Diagram 2.—When the pupil has acquired some littleproficiency in the use of the hand and arm, he shouldbe taught to move them in accordance with the generaldirections just given. This diagram represents aposition suitable for the delivery of a passage of thiskind:— Not that I might draw envy upon that illustrious orderof which the accused happens to be.—Cicero v. Verres. or, indeed, any passage where a corrective idea is tobe expressed, or one moderately emphatic. Generally, also, as the action becomes more ener- INTRODUCTION. getic, the distance between the feet should be DIAGRAM II. DEPRECATORY POSITION. Diagram 3.—Kepresents a position suitable for the de-livery of a highly emphatic sentiment. The arm shouldbe gradually raised from the position shown in diagram1, until the hand is at the level of the head, the palm ofthe hand being presented flat, or nearly so, towards theaudience, diagram 3 («), the arm should then be brought,suddenly and with decision, to the position shown indiagram 3 (b). Care must be taken that the body ismaintained in a straight line with the leg on which itbears, and not suffered to lean to the opposite attitude represented in this diagram would besuitable for the delivery of passages similar to these:—Ill keep them all;By Heaven ! he shall not have a Scot of them;No, if a Scot would save his soul, h
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