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" that you are an actor of just such a part as is assigned you by the Poet of the play; of a short part, if the part be short; of a long part, if it be long. Should He wish you to act the part of a beggar, take care to act it naturally and nobly ; and... "
The Lady and the Pirate: Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a ... - Page 81
by Emerson Hough - 1913 - 436 pages
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Both Sides of the Street

Mary Spring Walker - 1871 - 356 pages
...Freeman ?" - " Doing my appointed work with diligence, Jennie, whatever it may be. An old writer says, ' Remember that you are an actor of just such a part as is assigned you by the poet of the play. Should he wish you to act the part of a beggar, take care to act it naturally and nobly, and the same...
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'Perfecting holiness'.

Edward Lewes Cutts - 1883 - 212 pages
...fisherman or an apostle; how they are done is the thing which is important. " Remember," says Epictetus, "that you are an actor of just such a part as is assigned you by the poet of the play ; a short fart, if the part be short, of a long part, if it be long. Should he wish you to act the...
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Both Sides of the Street. An American Tale

Both sides - 1885 - 232 pages
...Freeman ? ' ' Doing my appointed work with diligence, Jennie, whatever it may be. An old writer says, " Remember that you are an actor of just such a part as is assigned you by the poet of the play. Should he wish you to act the part of a beggar, take care to act it naturally and nobly, and the same...
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Getting a Wrong Start: A Truthful Autobiography

Emerson Hough - 1915 - 260 pages
...wisdom of the heathen, Epictetus, who wrote a motto that always hangs in warning over my own desk : "Remember that you are an actor of just such a part...short part if the part be short; of a long part if it be long. Should he wish you to act the part of a beggar, take care to act it naturally and nobly;...
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Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volume 60, Parts 1924-1934

University of the State of New York - 1925 - 1038 pages
...satisfaction would be complete. The old Roman Epictetus, however, hit the nail on the head when he said : Remember that you are an actor of just such a part as is assigned you by the play, of a short part if the part be short, of a long part if it be long; . . . for this is in your...
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