 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...  Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 136by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : pray...that you o'erstep not the- modesty of nature : for be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them:... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...groundlings ; whe (for the most part) are capable of •othing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither ; but...to the action ; with this special observance, that yon o'trstefi not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...4 The meaner people then seem to have sat in the pit. s Herod's character was always violent. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. .<-.i^ti > **&$i-..— Be not too tame neither ;• but let your own discretion...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone,' is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise ; I would have such a fellow Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erntep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of nature ; whose... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1820 - 512 pages
...Termagant; (20) it out-herods Herod : (91> Pray you, avoid it. 1 PLAY. I warrant your honour. HAM. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...groundlings; who, (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...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither ; but lot your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action...that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing; so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end is — to hold, as 'twere, the mirror... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews and noise ; I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoibg termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it....that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the first and now, was and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...place, and the Herowdys taken his schaffalde, and Annas and Cayphas their schaffaldys," &c. SXEEVENS. discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word,...that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and... | |
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