 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: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 71by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...— Julius Caesar, Act II. Scene 1. (Brutus, after Cassius had moved him against Caesar.) ACTION. — Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. SHARSPERE. — Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (His directions to the players.) Prodigious actions may as... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herod's Herod : Pray you avoid it ... Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of ~ playing, whose end, both at first and now, was, and is,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant;...observance, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 pages
...ranting style especially characterised the acting of Termagant. Chaucer, in the Miller's Tale, says:— 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... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdqing 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 anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was and... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoine: 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 anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | Thomas Baker (barrister.) - 1866 - 160 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 anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...could 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...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... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 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 anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 pages
...groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant;...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstop not the modesty of nature ; for anythmg so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose... | |
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