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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 339
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. 3. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the action to the...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 virture her...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...Herod5: pray you 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...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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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...pray you, avoid it. 1 st Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the...that you o'er-step 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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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...pray you, avoid it. l Play. I warrant your honour. Hewn. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the...that you o'er-step 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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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...Herod5: pray you 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...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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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...pray you, avoid it. lsi Plag. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the...that you o'er-step 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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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own 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 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...: pray you avoid it. I 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,...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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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...Herod.1 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honor. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the...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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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for ...

Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 pages
...and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. " Be not too tame neither •, but let your own 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 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to show Virtue her own...
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