 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,...  A History of Aesthetic - Page 160by Bernard Bosanquet - 1904 - 502 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step 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 is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour up to nature ; to show virtue '... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...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 is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...the word to 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 end is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to Nature ; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step 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 is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to shew 'irtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...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 is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step 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 is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step 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 is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...too*"* — 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^rst, and now, wan, and is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtu* her... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...word — to the action ,- witli 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 theJSrsl, and now, was, and « — to hold, as 'twere. the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...wo'rd to the ac'tion, with this special obserVauce, that you o'erste'p-not-the-modesty of nature : for, anything so overd'one/ is from the pu'rpose of pla'ying ; whose e'nd/ both at the fir'st and no'w, w'as and is, to ho'ld (as 'tw'ere) the mi'rror up to na'ture ; to show Vir'tue,... | |
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