 | 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...(for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion...the action; with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature ,• for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...such a fellow whipped for o'cr-doing Termagant; it out-hcrods Herod:* Fray you, avoid it. l Ptaij. l warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither,...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstcp not the modesty of nature: for any tiling jo overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...character of Herod, in the ancient mysteries, •was always a violent one.— STEEVIMS. u2 cretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | Mathew Carey - African Americans - 1830 - 480 pages
...avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit tho action to tho word, the word to the action; with this special observance,...of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpoie of playing, whose end, both at the first; and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 530 pages
...noised19) I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ;(20) itout-herods Herod ;(21) Pray you, avoid it. 1 PLAY. I warrant your honour....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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...(for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'crstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 420 pages
...whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; 15 but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first, and now, was,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...for o'erdoing Termagant ; ' it out-herods Herod. 'Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honor. 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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... 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. 
