| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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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