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Mimic Life: Or, Before and Behind the Curtain. A Series of Narratives - Page 41
by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie - 1856 - 408 pages
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...honour. Ham. 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'er-step not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...you, avoid it. 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 any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...you, avoid it. 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 any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...avoid it. 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 any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...honour. Ham. 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'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The Works of the Late Edward Dayes: Containing An Excursion Through the ...

Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Artists - 1805 - 432 pages
...too tame neither, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature." Weak minds are apt, when they attempt the expressive style, to give their figures the wild and extravagant...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...honour. Ham. 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'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...honour. Ham. 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'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...it;™" t'; * 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'erstepnot the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...honour. Ham. 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 any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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