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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and ... - Page 168
by William Shakespeare - 1843
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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...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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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...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...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...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, 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...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...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, 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...
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 166, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. 1»i 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, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her...
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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...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both first and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature,...
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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...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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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,...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...
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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,...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...
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...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 neither,...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...
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