 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 746 pages
...deserving both of his comfortable establishment and his pretty wife. And now was the advice of Hamlet— " suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," most admirably set forth in the next verse : — " Cook your binnacle up to your chin, Open your ,'... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1851 - 836 pages
...actors, reminding them of what is, in truth, their sole office, — namely, to personate. He bids them ' suit the action to the word, and the word to the action, with this special observance, that they overstep not the modesty of nature,' for, he adds, all you... | |
 | 1879 - 974 pages
...by the declared wish of the Secretory of State— (an illustrious exemplification of the precept, " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.") Regret was becomingly expressed that the unambiguous meaning of the preceding vears despatch should... | |
 | Charles G. Finney - 1868 - 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... | |
| |
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... 
