...is to make the visible expression in delivery harmonize with the audible, or, as Shakspeare has it, to " suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." Professor Russell, in his excellent analysis of this subject says, " The true speaker must have a true...

...preaching, and they will like it. 6. A minister should always deeply feel his subject, and then he will suit the action to the word, and the word to the action, so as to make the full impression which the truth is calculated to make. He should be in solemn earnest...

...the spectators, that the particular part of Hamlet's address to the players, in which he exhorts them to " suit the action to the word and the word to the action" is entirely neglected by the amateur before them. Sheridan's amusing play of "The Critic; or, a Tragedy...

...players, ' I hope you will mouth not these things like some actors whom I have heard called great, but suit the action to the word and the word to the action. If you do not this thing I would as lief the town crier spoke my lines. ' I see through those pictures...

...the Seer," and John felt that in the Seer he should have a fine opportunity of showing the public how to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action. He had had a great deal of trouble with Bob ; first to get him to learn his part, and then to recite...

...peculiar terms, and his language and method in the field are most appropriate. In fact, he may be said to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action, with the greatest possible effect. By temperament of constitution, also, he is particularly fitted...

...your fellow actor's part as well as your own, that all may come pat, and the dialogue move smoothly. Suit the action to the word and the word to the action, neither too soon before, nor too late after, the word to be illustrated with appropriate action. Action...

...self-restraint, or self-control. In the passage cited below (§ 91), be gives us the following direction: " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature For in the very torrent,...

...the speaker or reader, nothing can do more injury than gestures, awkward, uncalled-for, and forced. "Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action," says Hamlet, and this advice disregarded leads to many an absurdity. I once heard a clergyman repeat...

...do not mean to say they are actors in the sense of being hypocrites or false, but simply that they " suit the action to the word and the word to the action," and are free, untrammelled, and graceful in all their movements, so much so as to have become above...