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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,... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 71
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. 1st Play. I warrant your honor. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'cr-step not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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McGuffey's New Eclectic Speaker: Containing about Three Hundred Exercises ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray, you avoid it. Be iret too tame either : but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end is, to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 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...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so over-done is from the purpose of playing; whose end, both at the first and now, was, and...
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Hints on elocution and public speaking

Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1858 - 80 pages
...could 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...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...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - Recitations - 1858 - 450 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...action, — with this special observance, that you o'erstcp not the modesty of nature : for any thing BO overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 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...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end is — to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own...
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...dumbshows and noise : I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod :W (•) First folio omits, for. (t) First folio, Iliii. (I) Firit folio omits, mil*. (5) '• " ' folio...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...dumbshows and noise : I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod :(D or, thou falso thief, Thy honey turns to g.ill, ( • ) Pint folio omitt , for. ( t ) Pint folio, tkii. ill Fuit folio omits, willi. (}) Pint folio...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 836 pages
...and noise : I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod :'D proy l : come out o'the storm. [Exeunt. (*) First folio,...I.— À Heath. A rform, with thunder and lightning. (*i First folio omití, /or. ( 1 1 First folio. tfii.t. Ш FirH fol» omit,, rit* Ц) Fir-t folio omits,...
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The Elements of Elocution, Etc

Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. 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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