The phrase "show virtue" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to mean to "demonstrate admirable moral qualities", and is often used in the context of someone giving an example to be followed. For example: "The King showed virtue in his actions, and all of his subjects looked up to him."
But the play does "hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure".
He speaks to them about "the purpose of playing" - the aim is to hold "the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure".
It was Shakespeare after all who gave us the ultimate raison d'être of the arts: "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 feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure".
Banksy makes art that, as Hamlet said, holds "…the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure". And what artwork better captures the spirit of our times than Love is in the Bin?
None of the Farrell company's dancers look world-class in terms of physical perfection or technical glory, but all show virtues of absorption and inflection that you often wish more ideally gifted dancers showed.
Who have shown virtue as they rise in the ranks.
And we found that when they were put into positions of power, they got more support for the bills they were promoting if they were showing virtue in their speech.
Mr. Narayan nodded, as if this frankness showed virtue and he was agreeing not with the statement but with the honesty.
But they have shown virtues associated, from time immemorial, with manliness.In this section Waiting, worrying and working out the consequences Measure for measure On the trail Blowing at boxes A governor falls Take a chance on me?
The star of the show, by virtue of sheer volume, was tout le lapin.
The grander the show of virtue, the more titillating the exposé.
