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" 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... "
The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ... - Page 420
by William Shakespeare - 1851
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it outherods Herod.1 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honor. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...I would have such a fellow whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for ...

Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 pages
...say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. " Be not too tame neither •, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature .for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it outHerods Herod. Pray you avoid it. 3. But not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...dumb shows, and noise ; I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant * ; it out-herods Herod ' : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your...that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...I would have such a fellow\whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : pray you a void operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish....distress ! — Seek, seek for him ; Lest his ungove any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...whipped for o'erdoing Termagant;* it out-herods Herod. 'Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honor. Ham. Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...be cpna'dered :—that's villainous, and s\\ovre a mo*. v*JS.v\ ambition in the fool that uses iV. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at first and now, was and is,...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at first and now, was and is,...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped, for overdoing termagant; it out-herods Herod; pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature;...
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