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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 Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - 1825 - 782 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 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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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 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 mirrour up to nature; to show virtue her...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 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 mirrour up to nature; to show virtue her...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erslcp not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone...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 Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 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 Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observant*, 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, t* . hold, as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...but let 15 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 35 censure of which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 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 Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...salt the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special ohservance, that you p'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the. purpose of playmg, wnose end, hoth at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour up to nature...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...one.— STEEVIMS. u2 cretion 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 mirrour up to nature ; to show virtue her...
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