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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes - Page 54
by William Shakespeare - 1812
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...beget a temperence that may give it smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robusteous periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to....part)' are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb sheW;a-nd noise : I could have such a feiIdwetyvbi'ppAt'for oserdoing termagant; it out-herods Hetod....
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 4

1811 - 530 pages
...temperance, that maj give, it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...dumb 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,...
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Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossarial index

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 pages
...periwig-pated6 fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;7 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but...whipped for 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...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, yon must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...of nothing, but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tauers, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; 1 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but...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 be your tutor : suit the action...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews and noise : I would have such a fellow whiptfor o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray...
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Gerstenbergs vermischte schriften von ihm selbst gesammelt und mit ...

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg - 1815 - 786 pages
...whirlwlnd of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothnefs. Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...part, are capable of nothing , but inexplicable dumb shews and noise: I conld have such a fellow lohipt for o'er-doiug Termagajit; it out-herods Pier od....
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The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface ..., Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...dumb shows, and noise : I 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,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...Players. [1] The word eestacy was anciently used to Bignify some degree of alienation of mind. STEEVENB. may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul,...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : 1 would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it outherods Herod :' Pray you, avoid...
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A Journey to Rome and Naples, Performed in 1817: Giving an Account of the ...

Henry Sass - Art - 1818 - 420 pages
...reception of the lower classes. Shakespeare alludes to this custom in Hamlet's address to the players: " O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise." Many of the French provincial theatres are the same. There is an excellent establishment...
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