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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Page 52
by William Shakespeare - 1814
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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...the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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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...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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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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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 Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...such a fellow whipped for o'cr-doing Termagant; it out-hcrods Herod:* Fray you, avoid it. l Ptaij. l warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither,...that you o'erstcp not the modesty of nature: for any tiling jo overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first, and now, was, and is,...
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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...the action ; 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...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...//•••.'. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to tint word, the word to the action ; with this special observance,...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, scorn her own image, and...
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Tatler & Guardian

1831 - 704 pages
...such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. Be not loo With all this he is so extremely proud that he will...visit.' I was going on in reading my letter, when o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...(for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'crstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. — Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose...
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