“Thumps not the desk nor smacks of bitten nails,”all these become ridiculous, unless we are alone, Finally,
[21]
Moreover, the
gestures which accompany strong feeling, and sometimes even serve to stimulate the mind, the waving
of the hand, the contraction of the brow, the
occasional striking of forehead or side, and those
which Persius1 notes when he describes a trivial
style as one that
1 i. 106.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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