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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... "
A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 399
1872 - 534 pages
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise'. Pray you avoid it'. Be not too TAME', either'; but let your own discretion be your tutor'. Suit the...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 it were', the mirror...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod5: pray you avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. 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, both at the first, and now, was, and...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. 3. 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, both at the first and now, was and...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : pray you avoid it. I Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, 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...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, 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...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...for o'erdoing Termagant ; it outherods Herod.1 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honor. Ham. 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, both at the first and now, was and...
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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for ...

Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 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...observance, 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...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...part,) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb-show and noise. I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant, it out-Herod's Herod. Pray...be your tutor. Suit the action — to the word, the word — to the action ,- witli this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature:...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 pages
...have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it outHerods Herod. Pray you avoid it. 3. But 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, both at the first and now, was and...
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...groundlings, who, for the most part, \ are capable of nothing - but inexplicable dumb sfwws, and noise. \ Pray you, avoid it. \ Be not too tame, - neither ;...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstcp not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone \ is from the purpose / of playing ;...
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