 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 724 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...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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. First Player. I warrant, your honour. Hamlet. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...I 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...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... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Elocution - 1867 - 356 pages
...noise I would have such a fellow WHIPPED for o'erdoiny 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 anything so overdone is from the purpose of PLAYING whose end both at the first — and NOW was and... | |
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... 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. 
