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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ... - Page 190
edited by - 1832 - 284 pages
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...schqffaldys," &c. STJBEVENS. 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...of the time ', his form and pressure *. Now, this, overTo the instances given by Mr. Steevens of Herod's lofty language, may be added these lines from...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 pages
...schaffaldys," &c. STEEVENS. 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...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour up to nature : to show virtue her...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...uut let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the \t ord to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anj' thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first, and now, was, and...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy of, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve : the censure of one of...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 490 pages
...neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to die word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, hoth at first, and now, was, ana is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 372 pages
...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...nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of play^ ing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature;...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...Suit the action to the word, the word to 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 end is — to hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...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...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstrp not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first, and no\v, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...neither, but let yuar own discretion be your tutor : suit the actkm to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any tiling so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose ead, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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