 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 British Essayists: The Tatler - Page 208by Alexander Chalmers - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Plutarchus - 1846 - 990 pages
...crier had spoke my lines."—" Let your 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." 6. Quaestor.] Cicero was elected quaestor BC 76, when he was thirty years of age. He discharged the... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1846 - 548 pages
...well-strung bow.— POPE Suit is employed for intellectual or moral objects '»«i« the action to the word, the word to the action with this special observance, that you o'erstep not tht modesty of nature.'— SIULKSPIARX. So also intransi lively ; III suit., it now the joys of love... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 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...the word, the word to the action, with this special obseiTance, that you o'entep not the modesty Of nature."— SlI A iXSPEABE. LONDON : W. STRANGE, 21,... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that maygive it smoothness. . . Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...action to the word, the word to the action, with this vpeci&l observance, that you o'eratep not the modnty of nature." — SHAUSFEABK. LONDON -. W. STRANGE,... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...of nothing but inexplicable dumb show, and noise; I would have such a fellow whipped, for overdoing termagant; it out-herods Herod; pray you, avoid it....that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first and now, was and is,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 612 pages
...truer or more practical than these. " Be not too tame neither," continues Hamlet: "suit the action to the word, the word to the action : with this special...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature." We should never mistake violence for strength, grimace for forcible expression, or blood and horror... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...neither : but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the 10 action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end is — to hold, as it were, the mirror... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. —...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...o'erdoiug Termagant ; it ouWierods Herod : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1851 - 62 pages
...the drama, an extract from his own lecture on the subject in " Hamlet" fully shows :— " Let your discretion be your tutor, suit the action to the word,...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
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