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arms may fall to rest in recitation : and also at the close of each completed description . But where the description , though the sense is sufficiently complete , is not absolutely finished , because in the next stanza other objects ...
arms may fall to rest in recitation : and also at the close of each completed description . But where the description , though the sense is sufficiently complete , is not absolutely finished , because in the next stanza other objects ...
Page 437
... the stroke of the gesture should fall on thren in delivery . The verb when standing by itself is an important word , and requires the emphasis and action ; but , if qualified by an adverb , transfers also its rights like the noun .
... the stroke of the gesture should fall on thren in delivery . The verb when standing by itself is an important word , and requires the emphasis and action ; but , if qualified by an adverb , transfers also its rights like the noun .
Page 438
There is another fault , which speakers more frequently “ fall into , and is not so easily corrected . In discourse certain “ obscure cadences occur , a sort of measured feet , upon which many mark their gestures .
There is another fault , which speakers more frequently “ fall into , and is not so easily corrected . In discourse certain “ obscure cadences occur , a sort of measured feet , upon which many mark their gestures .
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Contents
Chironomia or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery | 1 |
Of the Voice | 27 |
Of the VoiceGeneral Precepts | 67 |
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| Title | Chironomia: Or, A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery Landmarks in rhetoric and public address |
| Author | Gilbert Austin |
| Editors | Mary Margaret Robb, Lester Thonssen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Southern Illinois University Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0809302292, 9780809302291 |
| Length | 583 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General |
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