 | English drama - 1814 - 516 pages
...Damnation! • • Twist. Being of all other dramatizers the least capable of instructing you how to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action. - .'•i!•! it. Pardon me there, Mr. Twist ; you surely forget hi* directions to the players in Hamlet. Twist .... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...manner of pronouncing may be supposed to be what Shakspeare meant in Hamlet's advice to the players, by "suiting the action to the word and the word to the action." The actor cannot suit the word to the action any other way than by pronouncing it. Thus where Cassius,... | |
 | 1822 - 394 pages
...time appointed, all is bustle and anxiety, all are equally desiious to outshine their neighbours in suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action. To prevent the destruction of books, desks, tables, &c. &0.1 it has been found necessary to close the... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...of pronouncing may be supposed to be what Shakspeare meant in Hamlet's advice to the players, by " suiting the " action to the word and the word to the action." The actor cannot suit the word to the action any other way than by pronouncing it. Thus where Cassius,... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...nor come from this noble town without being called — a Cockney! The Devil, in his energy, and in "suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action," had torn our correspondent's paper in pieces : determining, however, not to sink under our misfortunes,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1832 - 598 pages
...joining his friends in the tambouri. He accompanied the whole of his recital with appropriate gestures, suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action ; and after being liberally rewarded by the commanders, he went his way to jEgina, to lay before the... | |
 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - Capillarity - 1839 - 188 pages
...the applicant had retired, he was describing the incident to a friend with so much comic effect, " suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action," that he even surpassed his original ; and the two officers of an insurance company in the room immediately... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1839 - 674 pages
...circumstances of time, place, and persons. There has been here, sometimes, not only a failure in ' suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action,' but both word and action have been wrong. And sometimes what was de facto good and well-intentioned... | |
 | 1840 - 588 pages
...floor, said " Be under no apprehension for our comfort, we will go back to our former lodging ; " and suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action, they stretched themselves out very contentedly, and soon fell asleep. Thornton during the battle ensconced... | |
 | Jack (fict.name.) - 1843 - 480 pages
...till he brought the tips of his fingers in contact with his bosom for a second or two, — a sort of suiting ' the action to the word, and the word to the action,' — as he continued without ' outstepping the modesty of nature,' — " to ask me — a Post Captain... | |
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He acquired in this way an extraordinary habit of suiting the action to the word and the word to the action, of illustrating speech with gesture. 
