A Manual of Gesture: Embracing a Complete System of Notation, Together with the Principles of Interpretation and Selections for PracticeS.C. Griggs, 1884 - 260 pagina's |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action Ascending Lateral b. h. d. f. cli BERNARDO DEL CARPIO body Brutus Cæsar Chironomia Cicero cloth combined countenance d. o. cli d. o. rep dark death degree delivery Demosthenes descending line descending oblique discourse drop earth effect Elevation eloquence emotion emphasis emphatic assertion employed example expression feeling Front Prone gesture 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 index finger JONAS LIE LL.D Lord mercy movement natural night notation numbers o'er oblique backwards Oblique Supine orator oratory pathognomi position prep preparation Prof prone hand Quintilian r. h. upl reference rhetorical Right Hand Ascending Right Hand Horizontal Sacred says scorn sentence solemn soul space speak style Sublimity Superposition thee thine thought tion unemphatic uplifted utterance Vertical voice WILLIAM MATHEWS
Populaire passages
Pagina 10 - 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'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pagina 10 - 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.
Pagina 10 - 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.
Pagina 24 - 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.
Pagina 182 - 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.
Pagina 10 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Pagina 24 - 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.
Pagina 242 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...