 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant7; it out-herods Herod': 35 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Ptay. 1 warrant your honour. Ham. ! My father hath set guard to take my brother; And...question, Which I must act:— Hriefpess, and fortune, w 40 observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : For any thing so overdone is from the... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : Tray you, avoid it. 1 Act . I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : For any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod : Tray you, avoid it. 1 Act. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : For any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 406 pages
...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 lo the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...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 observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 pages
...schaffalde, and Annas and Cayphas their schaffaldys," &c. Steevens. J Play. I warrant your honour. "Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...to the action ; with this special observance, that youo'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so •verdone is from the purpose of playing,... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...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...the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thi. g so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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...the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of nature ; whose... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ;* it out-herods Herod :9 Pray you, avoid it. J Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, ' periwig-pated — .] This is a ridicule on the quantity of false hair worn in Shakspeare's time,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...(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 your own discretion...the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone, is from the purpose of playing ; whose... | |
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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... 
