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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ... - Page 175
by John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 588 pages
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 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...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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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...groundlings, who, for the most part, \ are capable of nothing - but inexplicable dumb sfwws, and noise. \ Pray you, avoid it. \ Be not too tame, - neither ;...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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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture ...

Merritt Caldwell - 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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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...that you o'er-step 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 reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...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 word, the word to the action, with this special obseiTance, that you o'entep not the modesty Of nature."— SlI A iXSPEABE. LONDON : W. STRANGE, 21,...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that maygive it smoothness. . . Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion...action to the word, the word to the action, with this vpeci&l observance, that you o'eratep not the modnty of nature." — SHAUSFEABK. LONDON -. W. STRANGE,...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...show, and noise; I would have such a fellow whipped, for overdoing termagant; it out-herods Herod; pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither; but let...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature;...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...neither : but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the 10 action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep...overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end is — to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 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...discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the 10 action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature :...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion be our tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the...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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