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" ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes. To which ... - Page 1024
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807
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Hand Book for Visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon

1851 - 62 pages
...mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this, overdone,...your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others." Such advice as this with reference to its peculiar subject, is indeed "for all times," and as judicious...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.2 Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make...judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in your allowance,3 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play,— and...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.8 Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make...judicious grieve ; the censure of which one, must, in your allowance,3 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play, — and...
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An Essay Upon the Ghost-belief of Shakespeare

Alfred Thomas Roffe - 1851 - 44 pages
...the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, tho' it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious...your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others " Now assuming that these were Shakespeare's own views upon Playing, and it does not seem likely that...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...mirror up to Nature ; to show virtue her own feature ; scorn, her own image ; and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now, this overdone,...whole theatre of others. O ! there be players that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly, — not to speak it profanely, that,...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure, t Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make...your allowance,! o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. 0, there be players, that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly — not to...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure, t Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make...the censure of which one, must, in your allowance, 1 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play,— and heard others...
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 166, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...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...whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, — not to speak it profanely, that, neither...
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School elocution : or The young academical orator

William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone,...whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly ; not to speak it profanely, that, neither...
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The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the ...

1853 - 458 pages
...mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and the body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone,...whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play, — Land heard others praise, and that highly, — not to speak it profanely, that,...
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