| 1826 - 508 pages
...(a.) I warrant your honour. Ham. 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 ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone... | |
| Charles Johnston, Peter Johnston - 1827 - 276 pages
...very impassioned and animated manner. But it appears, at least in these instances, that they ' do not suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ;' as what we have supposed to be the most impassioned eloquence, when heard in the Indian tongue,... | |
| 1841 - 552 pages
...pecuhar terms, and his language and method in the field are most appropriate. In fact, he may be said to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action, with the greatest possible effect. By temperament of constitution also, he is particularly fitted for... | |
| 1832 - 598 pages
...friends in the tambouri. He accompanied the whole of his recital with appropriate gestures, suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action ; and after being liberally rewarded by the commanders, he went his way to jEgina, to lay before the government... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...looks, and gestures, which are most agreeable to the nature of whatever he delivers :— he must " suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ;" always remembering, that " rightly to seem, is transiently to be." 17 K O •3 «*« o H O S 02... | |
| Charles G. Finney - 1835 - 112 pages
...to sway mind upon other subjects; if they would suit their subject to the state of mind, conform " the action to the word and the word to the action," and press their subject with as much address, and warmth, and perseverance, as lawyers and statesmen do... | |
| Charles Grandison Finney - 1835 - 452 pages
...preaching, and they will like it. 6. A minister should always feel deeply his subject, and then he will suit the action to the word and the word to the action, so as to make the full impression which the truth is calculated to make. He should be in solemn earnest... | |
| Charles G. Finney - 1836 - 290 pages
...to sway mind upon other subjects ; if they would suit their subject to the state of mind, conform " the action to the word and the word to the action," and press their subject with as much address, and warmth, and perseverance, as lawyers and statesmen do... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...expression from Ilamlit (Act iii., sc. 2), where the prince is giving directions to the players — " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action " — which contains in one short sentence the whole art and mystery of dramatic personation. It was... | |
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