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The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the ... - Page 82
by Charles Gildon - 1710 - 87 pages
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...inexplicable dumb fhews and neife : I could have fuch a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. BE not too tame neither ; but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the aftion to the word, the word to the action, with this fpecial obfervance,...
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1

Sir Richard Steele - 1786 - 516 pages
...fliews *, and noife : I would have fuck <ca fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing TERMA" GANTf ; it out-herods HEROD } : pray you, *' avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let " your own difcretion be your tutor : fuit the '* action to the word, the word to the aftion ; '* with this fpecial...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the moll part) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb fhcurs and noife. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpecial obfervance,...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the molt part) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb (hews and noife. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpecial obfervance,...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...dumb shews, and noise : I 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 be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance,...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1803 - 410 pages
...inexplicable dumb shew, and noise: I would have such a fellow wbipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod: pray you, avoid it. 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,...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...inexplicable dumb shews and noise : I would have such a- fellow whipp'd for o'erdomg termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you , avoid it. 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...
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The Accomplished Tutor: Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hodson - 1806 - 576 pages
...dumb fliows, and jioife: I could have fuch a ft-Mow whipp'd for o'erdoing ter: -niagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. " Be not too tame neither; but let your own difcretion •be your tutor. Suit the a£Hon to the word, the word to the aft ion, with this fpecial...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

1808 - 540 pages
...fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. It out-herods HEROD : pray you, avoid it. " Be 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...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 4

1811 - 530 pages
...dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-t'.oing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. 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,...
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