 Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently...  Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 136by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...temperance, that maj give, it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-t'.oing Termagant; it out-herods Herod:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...that [i] The word ecstacy was aneiently used to signify some degree of atienatrail of mind. STEJEVENS. may give it smoothness. O, it offends m"e to the soul,...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, yon must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...part) are capable of nothing, but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither : but let your own discretion be your... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews and noise : I would have such a fellow whiptfor o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray... | |
 | Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg - 1815 - 786 pages
...whirlwlnd of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothnefs. Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...part, are capable of nothing , but inexplicable dumb shews and noise: I conld have such a fellow lohipt for o'er-doiug Termagajit; it out-herods Pier od.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...unwatch'd go. [Exewti. SCENE II. A Hall in the same. Enter HAMLET, and certain Players. Ham. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,...to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings 4 ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...Players. [1] The word eestacy was anciently used to Bignify some degree of alienation of mind. STEEVENB. may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul,...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : 1 would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it outherods Herod... | |
 | Henry Sass - 1818 - 420 pages
...reception of the lower classes. Shakespeare alludes to this custom in Hamlet's address to the players: " O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious...of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise." Many of the French provincial theatres are the same. There is an excellent establishment for learning... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. .<-.i^ti > **&$i-..— Be not too tame neither ;• but let your own discretion... | |
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