Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere,... Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ... - Page 351by William Scott - 1820 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1765 - 540 pages
...avoid it. I Play. I warrant your Honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this fpecial obfervance, that yon o'er-ftep not the modefty of Nature •, for any thing fo overdone is... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1765 - 540 pages
...you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your Honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither; but let your owrt difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this fpecial obfervance, that you o'er-ftep not the modefty of Nature ; for any thing fo overdone is from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1768 - 462 pages
...it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Ham. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own diferetion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this fpecial obfervance, that you o'erftcp not the modefty of Nature ; for any thing fo over-done is from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 476 pages
...you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your honour. Hum. Ce not too tame neitner ; but letyoar own difcretion be your, tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to" the action, with this fpecial obfervance, thgt you o~er ftep not the -modert'y of nature ; for aay, thing fo overdone is... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the aftion to the word, the word to the aftion ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not...over-done is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...inexplicable dumb fhows and nolle. Pray, you avoid it. Be iipt too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpocial obfervante, that you o'erflep not the modefly of nature : for any thing fo overdone, is from... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...inexplicable dumb fhcurs and noife. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpecial obfervance, that you o'erftep not the modelly of nature; for any thing fo overdone, is from... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...inexplicable dumb (hews and noife. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpecial obfervance, that you o'erftep not the modefty of nature ; for any thing fo overdone, is from... | |
| English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...wbipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod: pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mil rour up to nature; to shew virtue... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue... | |
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