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" ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. "
Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins - Page 373
edited by - 1864
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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...overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose end is — to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to Nature ; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...inexplicable dumb shows, and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame, neither...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 Orator: A Monthly Magazine of Speeches, Plays, Dialogues ..., Volume 1

1857 - 280 pages
...inexplicable dumb shows, and noise. I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither;...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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Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. 1st 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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The Making of Theatre History

Paul Kuritz - 1988 - 478 pages
...inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipt for o'erdoing. Termagant, it out-Herods Herod, pray you avoid it. ... Be not too tame neither,...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...for o'er-doing Termagant. It out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. (Player: I warrant your honor.) 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 own...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. PLAYER 1 I warrant your honour. HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, 20 both at the first and now, was and is, to hold,...
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I Hate Hamlet

Paul Rudnick - 1992 - 84 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...o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as...
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Arthurian and Other Studies: Presented to Shunichi Noguchi

Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - 1993 - 302 pages
...of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness . . . Hamlet. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any 2 Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Surrealistic Poetry [Chogenjitsushugi Shiron] (Tokyo, 1930), p. 1. 3 All...
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And Flights of Angels

Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. (OPHELIA.) Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. (To the audience.) For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the...
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