 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 Works of Shakespere - Page 168by William Shakespeare - 1843Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod * : pray you avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 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...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... | |
 | 1860 - 164 pages
...the drama, an extract from his own lecture on the subject in "Hamlet" fully shows ; — " Let your discretion be your tutor, suit the action to the word,...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...could have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herod's Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 404 pages
...have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod :5 pray you, avoid it. First Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame...hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : Pray you, avoid it 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1863 - 166 pages
...such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod ! pray you, avoid it. 1 Plag. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither,...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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : Pray you, avoid it. "First Player. 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... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...could have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herod's Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 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... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1863 - 440 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...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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