 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'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing,...  The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirrorby Anniversary calendar - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...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...overdone,' is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erntep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of nature ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...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...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror ap to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the* action ; with this special observance, tliat you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own ima^e,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing: whose end is — to hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...the word, the word !o the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep ndl tlu modesty nf nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to holil as 'twere, the niirror up to nature ; (o show virtue her own feature, scorn her own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour up to nature : to show virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anj' thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; lo shew virtue her own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature; for...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | 1823 - 380 pages
...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...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 shew virtue her... | |
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