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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ... - Page 283
by William Shakespeare - 1856
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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 6

sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...and is the licence which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that be your clowns speak no more than is set down for them...of barren spectators to laugh too, though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villainous, and...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so ahominahly. I Play. \ hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether....speak no more than is set down for them : for there he of them, that will themselves langh, to set on some quantity of harren spectators to langh too;...
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The Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity 90 abominably. Tim should be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak...question of the play be then to be considered ; that's villanous, aud shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' /->»»i my awn Apartment,...
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A Descriptive Account of the Second Royal Gala Festival at Stratford-upon ...

1830 - 192 pages
...the following professional rebuke ? — "And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians).speaA no more than is set down for them; for there be of...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : — that's mllianous, and shews...
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Tatler & Guardian

1831 - 704 pages
...should be relbrmct! altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down lor your knowledge. But what is peculiar to your lordship above all the illustrious personages nf the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool...
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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 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...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. * Termagant was said to be...
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Hamlet: And As You Like It. A Specimen of an Edition of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1832 - 530 pages
...i603.ur e. not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 PLAY. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently* with us. HAM. O, reform it altogether....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 Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 6

Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the. players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6

Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 412 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and...
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Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and...
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