 | George Jacob Holyoake - 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...— Julius Caesar, Act II. Scene 1. (Brutus, after Cassius had moved him against Caesar.) ACTION. — Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. SHARSPERE. — Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (His directions to the players.) Prodigious actions may as... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herod's Herod : Pray you avoid it ... Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of ~ playing, whose end, both at first and now, was, and is,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...could 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...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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
