| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...abominably. Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. .'Ham. Oh, 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 shews... | |
| Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 pages
...made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. Ham. Oh, 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 shews... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...in the time of Shakspeare, and we here see that he had abundant reason for his precept in Hamlet : " Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than...set down for them ; for there be of them, that will of themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean... | |
| William Dunlap - 1813 - 410 pages
...low comic characters^ which they frequently did, they never lost sight of " and let your clowns say no more than is set down for them : For there be of them," &c. " I have heard some comedians, contemporaries of my own, who have expressed a desire to act Shylock... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...abominably. I Play. I hope, we have reformed that indiObrently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...them : for there be of them, that will themselves langh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to langh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary... | |
| English plays - 1815 - 450 pages
...unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of l,\ Shukspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren...to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will insist on one : at my... | |
| Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 456 pages
...and unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of by Shakspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren...to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will insist on one: at my... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...this special observance, that you o'erstep not the- modesty of nature : for be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...quantity 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...abominably. I 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...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...abominably. 1 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 : 8 for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators... | |
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