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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... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... - Page 691
by Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 1120 pages
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...out-herods Hetod. Pray; you atgjd it;™" t'; * 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'erstepnot the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...avoid it. 1 Act . I warrant your honour. Ham. 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 any thing so overdone is from...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. It out-herods HEROD : pray you, avoid it. " Be not too tame, neither ; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action, with this special...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 pages
...Steevens. J Play. I warrant your honour. "Ham. 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 youo'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so •verdone is from...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 476 pages
...Steevens. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, hut let your own discretion he your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special ohservance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 470 pages
...Steevens. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham, Be not too tame neither, hut let your own discretion he your tutor: suit the action to the word, the •word to the action ; with this special ohservance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so everdone is from...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 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...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 4

1811 - 530 pages
...shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-t'.oing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. 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,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant yoar honour. Ham. 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 any thing so overdone is from...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. 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 any thing so overdone is from...
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