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... A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 4001872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 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...question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." Go, make you ready. [Exeunt... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I had thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them...a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. * Termagant was said to be the god of the Saracens ; and out-doing him was applied to the most extravagant... | |
| 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 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... | |
| 1836 - 676 pages
...resorts to it. It is a part of that same spirit against which Hamlet warns the players, when he says: 'And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...question of the play be then to be considered : that's vile, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' It is of this ambition that we would... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 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...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready. — [Exeunt... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 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...though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termazaunt is the name given in old romances to the... | |
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