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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the ... - Page 169
by William Shakespeare - 1818
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...whipped for out-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. 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 at the first, and now, was, and...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...meant ; for Trimegisto and Termegisto are also names of thisTermagamit? 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 mirrour up to nature; to show virtue her...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...ruler of the universe; the child of the earthquake and of the thunder, 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 mirrour up to nature; to show virtue her...
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Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...the universe ; the child of the earthquake and of the thunder, 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Hum. 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 mirrour up to nature; to show virtue her...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and ..., Volume 4

English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...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,...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 Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. § Pray you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your hononr. 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...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.§ Pray you, avoid it. Play. I warrant your honcvr. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...the word, the word to the action; with this special observant*, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let 15 your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action...overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now this, overdone,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...(for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion...the action; with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature ,• for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose...
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The Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er- doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...with this special observance, that you o'erstep not tbe modesty of nature : for any thing sn overdone is from tbe purpose of playing, whose end, both at...
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