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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... "
The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ... - Page 96
by William Enfield - 1808 - 400 pages
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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...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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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...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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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for ...

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

C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...would have such a fellow whipped for c/enloing termagant, it out-Herod's Herod. Pray you. a ro id it. Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion...be your tutor. Suit the action — to the word, the too*"* — to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature:...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant, it out-Herod's 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 ,- witli this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature:...
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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture ...

Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may g've it smoothness. " Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion...the action; with this special observance, that you o'erslep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose...
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...most part, \ are capable of nothing - but inexplicable dumb sfwws, 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'erstcp not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone \ is from the purpose / of playing ;...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 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...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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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; with this special observance, that you o'ei-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone...'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn Jaer own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant * ; it out-herods Herod ' : Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. 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 thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose...
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