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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,... "
Makers of Modern Thought; Or Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A.D. to 1699 ... - Page 195
by David Nasmith - 1892
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...suit the action to the word, the word to 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 cud, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature; to shew...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. 2. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant: it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it....over-done 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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Handbook for Visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon

1860 - 164 pages
...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...
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The plays (poems) of Shakespeare, ed. by H. Staunton ..., Part 170, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...Ai«;] Let her be blunl, pinin-.ipn*--n «itb him. * ¡¡At find Him Ml,—} If she drlrct him not. Сов. Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee ! —...these hald tribunes ? On whom depending, their obe 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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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...plain-ejinkfti with him. ь IJihc find Aim nal,— ] If she delect him not. observance, that you o'crstcp* ft the teeming earth Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vcx'd ]ïy at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as Ч were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...inexplicable dumb show and noise ; I could have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herod's Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither,...anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : 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...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the action Vi tho word, the word to the action ; with thi^ special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty...so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose cn.l. both at the first, and now, was, and is, to bold, as 'twere, tho mirror up to nature ; to ihow...
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Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls ..., Volume 221

William Shakespeare - 1863 - 166 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod ! pray you, avoid it. 1 Plag. 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...
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Manual of School Management ...

Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1863 - 440 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...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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