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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ... - Page 118
by Increase Cooke - 1811 - 408 pages
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. whipt for overdoing Termagent, it out-Herods Herod ; pray you avoid it. And let those...of barren spectators to laugh too : though in the mean time, some necessary part of the play be ihen to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...of 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...of barren spectators to laugh too : though in the mean time, some necessary part of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a...
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Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...abominably. 1 PLAY. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently d with us. HAM. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : (24) for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...reform'd that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altugether. And let those, that play your clowus, speak no more than is set down for them : for there...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question • of the play be then to be considcr'd : that's villainous ; and...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 pages
...from Purgatory : " — I absented (myself from all plaies, as wanting that merrye Roscius of plaiers themselves laugh, to set on some 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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...abominably. 1 PLAY. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. H.IM. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them 7 : for there be of them, that will * First folio, or Norman. " Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir ; a stone-cutter...
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Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine ..., Volume 4

Theater - 1823 - 432 pages
...had abundant reason for his precept in " Hamlet." Let •those that play your clowns speak no mort than is 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...
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The Babbler; or, Weekly literary and scientific intelligencer, Volume 1

1822 - 440 pages
...up a spark of fame, and it is just аз our immortal bard observes " there be of them, that will of themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." Never did learning so actively diffuse itself over the world as in the present day. — Speculations...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...of Nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 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...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

English essays - 1823 - 380 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 shows...
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