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English Actors: Their Characteristics and Their Methods - Page 12
by Sir Henry Irving - 1886 - 60 pages
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Stratford as Connected with Shakespeare: And the Bard's Rural Haunts

Edwin Lees - Dramatists, English - 1854 - 94 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 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her...
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The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux, with ...

P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 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...body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, over done, or come tardy off, though it maka the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve;...
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The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux : with ...

Elocution - 1856 - 286 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...body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, over done, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve;...
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The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises ...

Elocution - 1856 - 282 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...body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, over clone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious...
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The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 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...
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 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 't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her...
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Mimic Life: Or, Before and Behind the Curtain. A Series of Narratives

Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie - American fiction - 1856 - 448 pages
...But — '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 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show Virtue her...
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Mimic Life: Or, Before and Behind the Curtain. A Series of Narratives

Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie - American fiction - 1856 - 436 pages
...But—'suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep 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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Class Book of Poetry: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 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...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 show virtue her...
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