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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ... - Page 56
by William Shakespeare - 1836
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The Plays, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods HerodJ : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of na* Reprimand him with freedom. •f* The meaner people then seeui to have sat in the pit. ture : for...
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Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 374 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. 1 i'l.iy. I warrant, your honour. Ham. 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 shew virtue her...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...(for the most part) are capable of nothing hut inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither ; but let your own discretion...overdone is from the purpose of playing : whose end is — to hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,...
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...whipped for out-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...meant ; for Trimegisto and Termegisto are also names of thisTermagamit? 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...'twere, the mirrour 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 pressure4. Now...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...ruler of the universe; the child of the earthquake and of the thunder, 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...'twere, the mirrour 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 pressure4. Now...
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Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...the universe ; the child of the earthquake and of the thunder, 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Hum. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...'twere, the mirrour up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own- image, and the very age and body of the time, bis form, and pressure4....
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. § Pray you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your hononr. Ham. 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...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let 15 your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone,...
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The Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er- doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...with this special observance, that you o'erstep not tbe modesty of nature : for any thing sn overdone is from tbe purpose of playing, whose end, both at...
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