| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing 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 her... | |
| English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing 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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from .the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing 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 her... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...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 end, both at first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own... | |
| 1831 - 704 pages
...the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : o has been this evening at the play of Hamlot. ' Mr. Bickerstaff,' said h at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...lT28,London. Carsten Niebuhr, 1733, West Ludingworth. Observe that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...word to the ac, tion ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing 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... | |
| James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing 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 own... | |
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