...given on this subject than that of Hamlet to the players: "Let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the action to the word, and the word to the action, with this special observance : that you overstep not the modesty of nature." If faithfully observed,...

...habit of action, whether awkward or graceful, is at variance with the demands of variety of style. " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." In conclusion, the power there is in variety, both as regards the relief to the ear of the listener,...

...(interrupting.) Nay, nay, nor be not too hasty, neither, but let . your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action. Oph. (rent's slowly :) . Wi./? wherefore thus? and whence should it be so? .... Oh ! what forbodes...

...much bed makes a dull head. — Govern your passions, or otherwise they will govern you. — Horace-. Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action. 6 Too many cooks spoil the broth. Too far east Is west. 8 - Too much liberty spoils all. — MaDiued...

...if ever, wins the heart. 3. Without paying too much attention to gesture and elocution, it is well to suit the action to the word and the word to the action, and throw special force into those phrases containing the leading points you wish to convey. 4. Never imitate...

...concealed dis PERSE it. A. e. Melt and dis PEL, ye specter doubts! 212. General Hints Upon Gesture. 1. " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; with this special observance — that you o'erstep not the modesty of Nature." 2. Be definite and...

...it alone, for he lost his cause by the jest." Whatever action be used, it should be appropriate. " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." Unstudied action is generally the most graceful and effective ; and the highest result of art is to...

...this way the instruction advances, step by step, with the progress of the pictorial representation. We suit the action to the word and the word to the action; the one illustrates the other; the language of the exposition responds to the action of the teacher...

...conceptions. lion. Shakespeare sensed the true law of values and proportions when he wrote : — • " Suit the action to the word, And the word to the action : " — which was a unique way of enforcing outer correspondences of inner conditions. The hand and...

...I'll go no further." Never shall I forget what ensued, for he carefully followed the advice of Hamlet, to " suit the action to the word and the word to the action." lie took the stage at certain sentences, he returned close to me, and waved his martial truncheon over...