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" Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action... "
The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 131
1812
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Studies in the Technique of Prose Style

Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 pages
...the right place? And even a greater than Swift or Voltaire is not much more practical as a teacher. "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet. "Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor." Can you trust your own...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 402 pages
...the right place? And even a greater than Swift or Voltaire is not much more practical as a teacher. " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet. " Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor." Can you trust your...
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The Psychology and Pedagogy of Visible Action in Speech

William V. O'Connell - 1926 - 218 pages
...author here briefly discusses the relationship of the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet to his own rules, "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." However, the fault of telling students what to do without telling them why or how to do it is quite...
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The Way of Composition: An Introduction to the Analytical Study of the Forms ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric, University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1926 - 412 pages
...publishers, Macmillan and Company, Limited, 'from Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates, 1899. "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet. "Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor." Can you trust your own...
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The Fine Art of Writing, for Those who Teach it

Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 pages
...words rather than long, and specially in short sentences. . . . (Quoted by Bainton, 182 ff.) HAMLET 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. (Ill ii 19 ff.) THOMAS...
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Neophilologus, Volumes 12-13

1927 - 740 pages
...it is a kind of necessitity for him and his art to supply a fitting phrase. Hamlet said an actor had to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action! And it is on this last principle that the actors in Sh.'s plays sometimes want addional phrases when entering...
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Sally and Sam: A Comedy in One Act

Jack Frakes - 1968 - 44 pages
...Rule — I've read so much I get mixed up. SCHOOLTEACHER. Just do your best, Tootie, and remember — "Suit the action to the word and the word to the action." TOOTIE. Welll . . . (Then, very dramatically, "Suiting the action to the word and the word to the action.")...
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Shakespearean Metadrama: The Argument of the Play in Titus Andronicus, Love ...

James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...artistic problem, I have been urging, is how to bring about the marriage of word and deed in drama, how to suit the action to the word and the word to the action, presumably without trampling on, let alone merely o'erstepping, the modesty of nature. 9 TS Eliot,...
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Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge

Rolf Soellner - 1972 - 488 pages
...word "journeyman" is indicative: Shakespeare himself had as an apprentice or journeyman been taught to suit the action to the word and the word to the action. When he had Hamlet imply that the new style was against nature, he surely meant that it was against...
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Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 43

1898 - 1072 pages
...right place ? And even a greater than Swift or Voltaire is not much more practical as a teacher. ' Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action,' says Hamlet. ' Be not too tame neither. Let your own discretion be your tutor.' Can you trust your...
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