 Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing,...  The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirrorby Anniversary calendar - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...be your tutor ; suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virture her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 pages
...be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature .• for...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to show Virtue her own... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...whipped for o'erdoing termagent ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 pages
...Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erslep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to show Virtue her own... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...the action to the word, \ the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstcp not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone \ is from the purpose / of playing ; whose end is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror, up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn, her own image,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, stress ! — Seek, seek for him ; Lest his ungovern'd...dissolve the life That wants the means to lead it. at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; with this special observance, that you o'ei-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her... | |
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