 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...be then to be considered. That's villanious, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion...: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of nature ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...of the time ', his form and pressure *. Now, this, overTo the instances given by Mr. Steevens of Herod's lofty language, may be added these lines from... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...Suit the action to the word, the word to 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 end is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to Nature ; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. lsi 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 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. l Play. I warrant your honour. Hewn. 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...the wo'rd, the wo'rd to the ac'tion, with this special obserVauce, that you o'erste'p-not-the-modesty of nature : for, anything so overd'one/ is from the...ti'me/ his fo'rm and pre'ssure. No'w/ this overdone, though it make the unski'lful lau'gh, cannot but make the judi'cious grie"ve, the censure of on'e of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action — to the word, the too*"* — to the action; with this special observance, that...overdone, is from the purpose of playing; whose end, both at the^rst, and now, wan, and is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtu* her... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action — to the word, the word — to the action ,- witli this special observance, that you o'erstep not the...overdone, is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at theJSrsl, and now, was, and « — to hold, as 'twere. the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...discretion be your tutor. Suit the action — to the word, the ico~i — to the action; with tiiis special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty...overdone, is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at theirs«, and now, wat, anil is— to hold, as 'twere, 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: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,... 
