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Show THEORY OF THEATRICAL DANCING. 97 zontals, obliques, right, acute, and obtuse angles, & c , a language which I deem almost indispensable in our lessons. These lines and figures, drawn upon a large slate and exposed to the view of a number of scholars, would be soon understood and imitated by them, and the master would not then be compelled to hold a long demonstrative discourse to each of them separately. The most diligent might take copies of those figures on small slates, and carry them with them to study at home, in the same manner as a child, when he begins to spell, studies in his horn-book in the absence of the master. Let the reader compare the two following delineations with fig. 1 and 3, of plate V I, and he will conceive a clearer idea of this new system. Fig. 1, plate VI. Fig. 3, plate VI. It is necessary that the pupil should study these geometrical lines and all their derivatives. If he subjects himself to this task, which I may venture to call mathematical, on account of its laboriousness, he is certain of holding himself correctly afterwards, and will show that he received notions of a pure taste in the school at which he was educated. A teacher cannot too strongly recommend his scholars to have incessantly before them those master-pieces of painting and sculpture, which have been saved from the wreck of antiquity. Those immortal offsprings of genius, |
