...finding himself no match for his yoke-fellow in eloquence, thought it might serve his cause, " to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ;" and, suspecting the smart ness of her dress boded nothing favourable to the fidelity of her conr jugal attachment,...

...finding himself no match for his yoke-fellow in eloquence, thought it might serve his cause, " to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ;" and, suspecting the smartness of her dress boded nothing favourable to the fidelity of her con jugal attachment,...

...finding, himself no match for hid yoke-fellow in eloquence, thought it might serve his cause, " to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ;" and, suspecting the smartness of her dress boded nothing favourable to the fidelity of her conjugal attachment,...

...friends in the tambouri. He accompanied the whole of his recital with appropriate gestures, suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action ; and after being liberally rewarded by the commanders, he went his way to jEgina, to lay before the government...

...which he may find the sinner at the time. He should present that particular subject, in that connexion and in that manner, that shall have the greatest natural...converts would be added to the Lord " like drops of the morning dew." Were the whole church and the whole ministry right upon this subject ; had they right...

...I hold in my amis !' And following the admirable rules given by Hamlet to the players, ' he suited the action to the word and the word to the action, and so o'er-stepped not the modesty of nature.' Now if any of my fair readers should think the modesty...

...may judge what was his quality by Hamlet's instructions to the players. One who could so well "suit the action to the word and the word to the action," and who so fathomed " the purpose of playing," could be no ordinary performer. Rowe says that " the top...

...— playing at hunt-the-slipper, hide-and-seek, dancing, and singing any nursery song — suiting " the action to the word, and the word to the action;" and where plain viands, fit for a child's stomach, are provided, without the abominable and senseless custom...

...mean to say they are actors in the sense of being hypocrites or false, but simply that they " suit the action to the word and the word to the action," and are free, untrammelled, and graceful in all their movements, so much so as to have become above any...

...It will not hurt us to move our arms occasionally as well as our lips — we need not blush to suit the action to the word and the word to the action — and if we find it answer, to our surprise and perhaps to our disgust, let us be content to lay the blame...