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English Actors: Their Characteristics and Their Methods - Page 12
by Sir Henry Irving - 1886 - 60 pages
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Shakspeare's tragedy of Hamlet, with notes, extr. from the old 'Historie of ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 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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Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Volume 3

Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft - 1868 - 454 pages
...Anleitung zur Schöpfung neuer Dramen im Shakespeare'schen Sinne anzusehen. Die Stelle lautet wörtlich so: For anything so overdone is from the purpose, of playing, whose end, both at the ßrst und now, iras and is, to hold as't were the mirror up to nature; to show r-irlue her own...
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One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose: Both New and Old ...

Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...tutor. Suit the action to the word; the word to the action; with ffiis special observance—that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so...time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone or come^|ardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve; the censure...
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Repetition and reading book, selections by C. Bilton

Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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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Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 5

Penny readings - 1866 - 304 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 mirror7up to nature ; to show virtue her...
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Select Readings from the Poets and Prose Writers of Every Country

James Fleming - 1866 - 382 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...
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On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its ..., Volume 2

Samuel Bailey - 1866 - 456 pages
...genuineness of which the commentators differ, but which they seem inclined to explain rather than to alter: " Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first and now was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirrour up to nature ; to show virtue her own...
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Standard Fifth Reader, Part 2

Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 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...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 Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1022 pages
...tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as Ч were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello. Antony ...

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 558 pages
...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...body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdoue , or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve;...
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