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" O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings : who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise : I would have such... "
How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Popular Treatise on the Nature ... - Page 160
by Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1902 - 272 pages
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The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the ...

Charles Gildon - 1710 - 288 pages
...dumb ** Shores and Noife. I could have fuch a Fel" lowwhipt for o'erdoing Termagant : It out" Herod's Herod. Pray you avoid it Be ** not too tame neither, but let your own Dif" cretion be your Tutor. Suit the ABion to the tt Word, the Word to the ABion, with this fpe"...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb fhews and neife : I could have fuch a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray...you, avoid it. BE not too tame neither ; but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the aftion to the word, the word to the action, with this fpecial...
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1

Sir Richard Steele - 1786 - 516 pages
...dumb " dumb fliews *, and noife : I would have fuck <ca fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing TERMA" GANTf ; it out-herods HEROD } : pray you, *' avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let " your own difcretion be your tutor : fuit the '* action to the word, the word to the aftion ; '* with this...
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Hamlet. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...mentions the groundlings with equal contempt. " The understanding gentlemen of the ground here." 213. — who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews, and noise ] ie have a capacity for nothing but dumb shews ; undertsand nothing else. So, in...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the molt part) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb (hews and noife. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpecial...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...groundlings ; who (for the moll part) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb fhcurs and noife. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this fpecial...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1804 - 416 pages
...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shew, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant ; it outherods Herod : pray...you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1803 - 410 pages
...perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shew, and noise: I would have such a fellow wbipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod: pray...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...perriwig pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ;8 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I , i Reprimand him with freedom. would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing...
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