 | Edwin Lees - Dramatists, English - 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,...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as "t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...shows, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : 3 pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour....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 - 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...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termageus ; it out-herods Herod : I 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 the first and now, was, and... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 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 any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, — whose end, both at the first and now, was... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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 't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her... | |
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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... 
