 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...of the time ', his form and pressure *. Now, this, overTo the instances given by Mr. Steevens of Herod's lofty language, may be added these lines from... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...tutor : 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 anything...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 her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for anything...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature ; for anything...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...the wo'rd, the wo'rd to the ac'tion, with this special obserVauce, that you o'erste'p-not-the-modesty of nature : for, anything so overd'one/ is from the...ti'me/ his fo'rm and pre'ssure. No'w/ this overdone, though it make the unski'lful lau'gh, cannot but make the judi'cious grie"ve, the censure of on'e of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...Suit the action — to the word, the ico~i — to the action; with tiiis special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything,...overdone, is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at theirs«, and now, wat, anil is— to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...Suit the action — to the word, the word — to the action ,- witli this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything,...overdone, is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at theJSrsl, and now, was, and « — to hold, as 'twere. the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...tutor; 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 anything...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature;... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1861 - 372 pages
...Hamlet is the very essence of the philosophy and use of the drama. The players are cautioned that they " o'er-step not the modesty of nature; for anything...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 her... | |
 | Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1851 - 62 pages
...tutor, 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 anything so...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her... | |
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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 anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 't were,... 
