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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 Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...would 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 the first and now, was, and...
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Hints on elocution and public speaking

Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1858 - 80 pages
...could have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing 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 the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...would 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...over-done is from 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...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 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'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 Making of Theatre History

Paul Kuritz - Performing Arts - 1988 - 478 pages
...would have such a fellow whipt for o'erdoing. Termagant, it out-Herods Herod, pray you avoid it. ... Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...for o'er-doing Termagant. It out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. (Player: I warrant your honor.) Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...overdone is from 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...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. PLAYER 1 I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, 20 both at the first and now, was and is, to hold,...
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I Hate Hamlet

Paul Rudnick - Drama - 1992 - 84 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...o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as...
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Arthurian and Other Studies: Presented to Shunichi Noguchi

Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness . . . Hamlet. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any 2 Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Surrealistic Poetry [Chogenjitsushugi Shiron] (Tokyo, 1930), p. 1. 3 All...
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And Flights of Angels

Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. (OPHELIA.) Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. (To the audience.) For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the...
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