 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 113by Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
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...Poetry is the mirror which truly reflects and represents great actions. Shakspeare says of the drama : ' 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 mirror up to nature ; to show virtue... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...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, — 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...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, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...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, — 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...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, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 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,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very acre and body trange, 'twas passing strange; (1) Open proof. (!) Weak show. (9) Thesisfn of the fic make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve : the censure of which one, must, in... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...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, 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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