| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 Seiten
...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, false hair worn in Shakspeare's time, for wigs were not in common use till the reign of Charles II.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 396 Seiten
...o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray yon, avoid it. i. Play. I warrant your Honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the aclion to the word, the word to the action ; wilh. vVi\> s^fctvi observance, that you o'er-slep »ot... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 Seiten
...o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : 3 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion...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 feature, scorn... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 Seiten
...(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...overdone, is from the purpose of playing; whose end is—to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image,... | |
| William Marrat, Pishey Thompson - 1812 - 488 Seiten
...stronger language than is used in the same play by Hamlet, in his instructions to the players — " O'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing...purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; — now this overdone, or come tardy off',... | |
| John Thelwall - 1812 - 370 Seiten
...I would have such a fellow whipt 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 aftion to the word, the word to the adtion ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 Seiten
...for o'erdoing 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...purpose of playing; whose end, both at the first and now, icas and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to shew Virtue her own feature, scorn... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 350 Seiten
...o'erdoing 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 be your tutor. Suit the action to the icord, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature;... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 840 Seiten
...therefore, with the aHvice which Shakspeare puts into the mouth 01 Hamlet: "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." ACTION, in a theatrical sense, is nearly the same with that among orators, with this difference, that... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1814 - 618 Seiten
...would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. " Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion...this special observance, that you o'erstep not the nwdes^* of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end, both at the... | |
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