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" And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play... "
The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ... - Page 118
by Increase Cooke - 1811 - 408 pages
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...abominably. ] Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them:4 for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reform'd that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : ' that's villainous : and...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...abominably. I Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. I 1 a in. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous ; and shows...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...those, that play your clowns, speak »o more than is !et down for them : For there be of them, that wil! themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meai time, some necessary question of the pby be ther to be considered : that 's villainous ; and shews...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reform'd that indifferently with us. Hum. O, reform it altogether. tor them: For there be of them, that w. II themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 2

1807 - 474 pages
...last of these notable histrionic maxims, that I shall condescend to notice, is—but only hear it. " Let those that play your Clowns, speak no more than is set down far them." Farewel then, a long farewel to all the honour of comedy, and the genius of the comedian...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...abominably. 1 Act. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...abominably. 1 Act. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous; and shows...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably, ' . . And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...set down for them : for there be of them that will themsevles laugh, to set on sonje quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time,...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1809 - 382 pages
...men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. This should be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villanous, and shews...
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