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" 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. "
The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature - Page 480
1829
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...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. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...tongue. . . And do not saw the air too much with your handthus ; hut 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. . . Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...tongue. . . And 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 maygive it smoothness. . . Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action ! SHAKSPERE. HAMLET'S DIRECTIONS TO THE PLAYERS. torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind, of...! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...spoke my lines. And do not saw the air too much with your hand ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of...smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robusteous, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, 5 to split the ears of the...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoke my lines. And do not saw the air too much with your and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you...smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robusteous, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, 5 to split the ears of the...
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Proceedings of the Meeting of the Convention of American ..., Issues 1-3

Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf - Deaf - 1850 - 694 pages
...the speaker be under a wholesome restraint. As has been aptly said, " 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." But it is asked would you have a preacher theatrical 1 If...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 264 pages
...state, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, the observed of all observers. . Oph. a. 3 s. 1 O it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters.. Ham. a. 3 *. 2 O'erstep not the modesty of nature.. Ham. a. 3 s. 2 O heart lose not thy nature, let...
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An Essay on Elocution: with Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...nature that ever wrote upon its subject: ie " not to o'erstep the modesty of nature; 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; hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; show virtue her...
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