Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Actors.=
A strutting player,--whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. 27 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act i., Sc. 3. The world's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill. 28 THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Apology for Actors._ =Adaptability.= All things are ready, if our minds be so. 29 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. =Address.= And the tear that is wiped with a little address May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. 30 COWPER: _The Rose._ |
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