 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...could 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 any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at first and now, was and is,... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped, for overdoing termagant; it out-herods 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 first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature;... | |
 | 1851 - 62 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,...is, to hold, as 't were, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoiug Termagant ; it ouWierods Herod : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. 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, a? 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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...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 - 1851 - 408 pages
...have such a fellow whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. § Pray you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither,...observance, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...be your tutor : suit the aetion to the word, the word to the aetion ; with this speeial observanee, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for...to hold, as 't were, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...whipped 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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 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...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... | |
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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... 
