...your fellow actor's part as well as your own, that all may come pat, and the dialogue move smoothly. Suit the action to the word and the word to the action, neither too soon before, nor too late after, the word to be illustrated with appropriate action. Action...

...do not mean to say they are actors in the sense of being hypocrites or false, but simply that they " suit the action to the word and the word to the action," and are free, untrammelled, and graceful in all their movements, so much so as to have become above any...

...the speaker or reader, nothing can do more injury than gestures, awkward, uncalled-for, and forced. "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet, and this advice disregarded leads to many an absurdity. I once heard a clergyman repeat...

...taste. It will not hurt us to move our arms occasionally as well as our lips — we need not blush to suit the action to the word and the word to the action — and if we find it answer, to our surprise and perhaps to our disgust, let us be content to lay the blame...

...English Sowls had never heard. His gestures are nine times out of ten ridiculous ; if it be his business to suit " the action to the word, and the word to the action.'1 as set down in Shakespeare, then why rant ? Unless Dr. Parker desires to win fame as one...

...starless sky of midnight ! MEDIUM. 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. LOUD. Proud monuments...

...the right one. The probabilities are, if he require to think, at the time of speaking, how he will " suit the action to the word and the word to the action," he will run off the rails. He must be master of himself and of his actions and not need to think of...

...intellect and sensibility, a wide range of subjects must be chosen ; and in all these, his business will be to 'suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.'" Hamlet's Advice to the Players. Th's last line reminds us that we have not yet laid before the reader...

...To appear rich we become poor. Govern your passions, or otherwise they will govern you. — Horace. Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action. 'Tis the nature of the beast. Q To err ls human, to forgive divine. We have two ears and but one tongue,...

...the book away. He loved the beautiful and the true. Mr. Marshall was a consummate actor. He knew how to " suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." In his arguments to a jury his force was not in the comparisons he made, but in the deductions he drew...