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" Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your 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 overdone is from the purpose of playing,... "
The Seventh Reader - Page 113
by Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 335 pages
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Hamlet. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...aftion ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : For, any thing so over-done is from the purpose of playing, whose...Now this, over-done, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,...-Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1804 - 416 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...Now this, over-done, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1803 - 410 pages
...mil rour up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this, over-done, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time hi* form and pressure. Now this, over-done, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...the 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...pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...mirror up to nature ; to'shew virtue her own feature , scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time , his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy of, though it make the unskilful laugh , cannot but wake the judicious grieve : the censure of one...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 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...pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 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...pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one, must, in...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure '. Now this, over-done, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in...
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