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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... "
Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare - Page 71
by William Shakespeare - 1820 - 466 pages
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The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the ...

1853 - 458 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped 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'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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School elocution : or The young academical orator

William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...would 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 first and now, was, and is, to...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...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'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36— iii. 2. 187. Studies to be pursued according to taste and pleasure. Continue your resolve, To...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; itout-herodsHerou^Prayyou, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not...action to the word, the word to the action ; with this spec iai observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of na. ture : for any thing so overdone is from...
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Stratford as Connected with Shakespeare: And the Bard's Rural Haunts

Edwin Lees - 1854 - 108 pages
...dignify 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,...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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Stratford as Connected with Shakespeare: And the Bard's Rural Haunts

Edwin Lees - 1854 - 94 pages
...the drama, an extract D from his own lecture on the subject in Hamlet fully shows : — " Let your discretion be your tutor, suit the action to the word,...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 practical elocutionist

Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...may be too frequently remarked in the elocutionary tyro, is to be studiously avoided: — " Let your discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature." SHAKESPERE. When both hands are used, except under certain circumstances, which will be explained under...
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...couM have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod : pray you, avoid it. I PLAY. I warrant your honour. HAM. Be not too tame...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 William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pages
...Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. l Piny. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tarns neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor...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 Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises ...

1856 - 282 pages
...o'er doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : pray you avoid it. 1st Act. (R.) I warrant your honor. Ham. 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 observance, that you o'er step not the modesty of nature...
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