A Manual of Gesture: Embracing a Complete System of Notation, Together with the Principles of Interpretation and Selections for PracticeJ. C. Buckbee, 1872 - 274 ページ |
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action BERNARDO DEL CARPIO body breath Brutus BUCKBEE Cæsar Chironomia Cicero combined countenance d. o. cli d. o. rep dark death degree delivery Demosthenes descending lateral descending line descending oblique discourse drop earth effect Elevation Elocution eloquence emotion emphasis emphatic assertion employed eternal example expression feeling Front Prone gesture give glory grace h. f. rep h. o. ind Hand Ascending Front Hand Ascending Oblique Hand Horizontal Oblique hath heart Heaven hence honorable Horizontal Front idea impassioned index finger Lord mercy movement natural night notation o'er oblique backwards Oblique Supine orator oratory pathognomi position prep preparation prone hand public speaker Quintilian r. h. upl reference rhetorical Right Hand Ascending Right Hand Horizontal rules Sacred says scorn sentence solemn soul space speak style Sublimity Superposition thee thine thou thought tion unemphatic uplifted utterance Vertical voice
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10 ページ - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
10 ページ - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virt-ue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
10 ページ - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature...
10 ページ - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
24 ページ - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
182 ページ - For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the nations are idols : But the LORD made the heavens.
24 ページ - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it.
23 ページ - Th' expressive glance, whose subtle comment draws Entranc'd attention, and a mute applause ; Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught, A sense in silence, and a will in thought ; Harmonious speech, whose pure and liquid tone Gives verse a music scarce confess'd its own, As light...
9 ページ - It proceeds, perhaps, from this our national virtue, that our orators are observed to make use of less gesture or action than those of other countries. Our preachers stand stock still in the pulpit, and will not so much as move a finger to set off the best sermons in the world.
100 ページ - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder : The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.