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| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...out-herods Hetod. Pray; you atgjd it;™" t'; * 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'erstepnot the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from... | |
| Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...avoid it. 1 Act. I warrant your honour. Ham. 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 any thing so overdone is from... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...tear a passion to 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 pages
...Steevens. 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, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that youo'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so •verdone is from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 476 pages
...Steevens. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, hut let your own discretion he your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special ohservance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 470 pages
...Steevens. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham, Be not too tame neither, hut let your own discretion he your tutor: suit the action to the word, the •word to the action ; with this special ohservance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so everdone is from... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses 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; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from... | |
| 1811 - 530 pages
...shows, and noise: I 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 be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant yoar honour. Ham. 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 any thing so overdone is from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...avoid it. 1 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, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from... | |
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