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The phlegmatic Englishman stamps and gesticulates with all the energy of a madman. We esteem humour; they prefer wit: we like the long consecutive chain of proof that leads us step by step to inevitable conviction; they like better some brief but happy illustration that, dispensing with the tedium of argument, presents a question at one glance before them.
We pity his weakness, or we sympathize with him; but he cannot move us. He is a mastered man, and until he can choke down his passion he cannot master us. A man rises in an audience in a state of furious excitement, and fumes, and yells, and gesticulates, but he only moves us to pity, or disgust, or laughter. His passion utterly deprives him of power. We call Mr.
The Dominican says little, appearing to weigh his words. Quite in contrast, the other priest, a Franciscan, talks much and gesticulates more.
There is not any doubt that Dalrymple will see them, for Master Seaton has observed him and rushing to the railings gesticulates violently, and the former attracted by some magnetic influence turns, hesitates for a moment and then crosses over. 'So glad to see you. Lippa and I were so afraid you were going to cut us, says the unsuspecting Mabel. 'What are you doing in London now?
Blossom, you are in love with him." "Oh, no, sir; but I do like to watch him in the pulpit. He gesticulates so beautifully." "And now speak truth and spare not how do I compare with him?" "Oh, Mr. Jonathan, you are so different!" "Do you imply that I am ugly, Blossom?" "Why, no not ugly. Indeed I didn't mean that." "But I'm not so handsome as Reverend Orlando? now, confess it."
The audience sit round in a half-circle, and the narrator stands in the foreground, and quietly begins a tale from the Thousand and One Nights; but as he continues he becomes inspired, and at length roars and gesticulates like the veriest ranter among a company of strolling players.
But then Portia gives us to understand, that she, too, has her private troubles; that even that excellent man, Brutus, is not without his moods in his domestic administrations, for on one occasion, when he treats her to 'ungentle looks, and 'stamps his foot, and angrily gesticulates her out of his presence, she makes good her retreat, thinking 'it was but the effect of humour, which, she says, 'sometime hath his hour with every man'; and, good and patriotic as Brutus truly is, Cassius perceives, upon experiment, that after all he too is but a man, and, with a particular and private nature, as well as a larger one 'which is the worthier, and not unassailable through that 'single I myself': he, too, may be 'thawed from the true quality with that which melteth fools, with words that flatter 'his particular. In his conference with him, Cassius addresses himself skilfully to this weakness; he poises the name of Caesar with that of Brutus, and, at the last, he clinches his patriotic appeal, with an appeal to his personal sentiment, of baffled, mortified emulation; for those writings, thrown in at his window, purporting to come from several citizens, 'all tended to the great opinion that Rome held of his name; and, alas! the Poet will not tell us that this did not unconsciously wake, in that pure mind, the feather's-weight that was perhaps needed to turn the scale.
The former gesticulates, splutters out a perfect torrent of alternately shrill, guttural, and intoned Gaelic; he shrugs his shoulders, he throws his arms about, he thrills with vivacity. The Teuton expresses quiet, sententious canniness in every gesture and every utterance; he is a cold-blooded man and keeps his breath to cool his porridge.
The passengers, looking at the tipsy and blissful bridegroom, are infected by his cheerfulness and no longer feel sleepy. Instead of one listener, Ivan Alexyevitch has now an audience of five. He wriggles and splutters, gesticulates, and prattles on without ceasing. He laughs and they all laugh. "Gentlemen, gentlemen, don't think so much! Damn all this analysis!
He is overflowing with soured generosity, charitable violence and a sort of chivalrous demagogy; there is a love in his heart with which he stirs up hatred; he is tall, thin, young looking at a distance, old when seen nearer, wrinkled, bewildered, hoarse, flurried, wan, has a wild look in his eyes and gesticulates; he is the Don Quixote of the Mountain.
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