 | English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shew, and noise: I would have such a fellow wbipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod: pray...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mil rour up to nature; to shew virtue her... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray...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 - 1803 - 446 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod :9 Pray you, avoid 5t1 Play. l warrant your honour. Ham. 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews and noise : I would have such a- fellow whipp'd for o'erdomg termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you , avoid...so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose «nd , both at the first and now , was and is , to hold as 'twere , the mirror up to nature ; to'shew... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1809 - 382 pages
...are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray...the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is om the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-t'.oing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it....that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thi. g so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...be then to be considered. That's villanious, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses 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 nature ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the most part) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but...overdone, is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to bold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod :3 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : pray...that you o'erstep not the- modesty of nature : for be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them:... | |
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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 ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing... 
