. 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 ... DIAGRAM V.—ENTREATY AND DENIAL. Diagram 6.—This diagram shows the position inwhich a boy should stand, who is being addressed byanother. A speaker who delivers himself singly to anauditory, and one who addresses another speaker inview of an auditory, are under very different predica-ments;—the first, has only one object to address—thelatter, has two; for, if a speaker were to add
. 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 ... DIAGRAM V.—ENTREATY AND DENIAL. Diagram 6.—This diagram shows the position inwhich a boy should stand, who is being addressed byanother. A speaker who delivers himself singly to anauditory, and one who addresses another speaker inview of an auditory, are under very different predica-ments;—the first, has only one object to address—thelatter, has two; for, if a speaker were to address theperson to whom he speaks, without any regard to thepoint of view in which he stands with respect to theaudience, he would be apt to turn his back upon them,and to place himself in ungraceful positions. In adialogue, each speaker should stand obliquely, thus,— / audience. \ and chiefly make use of one hand only, and INTRODUCTION. 11 that one most remote from the audience, throwingthe weight of the body also on that side. It must be. DIAGRAM VI. RELATIVE POSITIONS. carefully noted, that when a boy is not speaking, thearms must hang naturally by the sides, unless what isspoken by one, is of such importance as to excite agita-tion and surprise in the other; or he may, withpropriety, occasionally stand with his arms folded, orwith the right hand in the left breast, or the reverse,as shown in diagram 7. Where more than twospeakers are introduced, as in some extracts from plays,the speakers should be arranged in a picturesquemanner, agreeably to the laws of perspective; and it isin these scenes that the positions of repose, representedin diagram 7, maybe most advantageously the delineation of character, the most unerring 12 THE PRACTICAL ELOCUTIONIST. guide is nature. If the speaker possess sufficient judg-ment and skill, and allow himself to be actuated solelyby the feelings he may be endeavouring to portray, hewill rarely err.* The compiler has to ack
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