 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'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,...  The Tatler - Page 2631804Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...suits with fortune, That would give more, but that her hand lacks means. Shakspeare. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. Id. Hamlet. I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart ; for truly I love none. —... | |
 | Mathew Carey - African Americans - 1830 - 480 pages
...avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit tho action to tho word, the word to the action; with this special observance,...of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpoie of playing, whose end, both at the first; and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...//•••.'. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to tint 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'crstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 420 pages
...whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; 15 but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first, and now, was,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither; but let...the action; with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature, for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36 — iii. 2. 607 The mirror of nature. Hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...it. I Play. I wirrant your honour. Ham. Be not loo tame neither, but let your own discretion be vour tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the...with this special observance, that you o'erstep not Ihe modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. .... Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36 — iii. 2. 607 The mirror of nature. Hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue... | |
 | 1840 - 808 pages
...that may give it smoothness.—Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. — Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath... | |
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