 O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-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 shows, and noise: I would have...  The British Essayists: The Tatler - Page 208by Alexander Chalmers - 1803Full view - About this book
 | 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 Heywood's History... | |
 | 1803 - 410 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 shew, and noise: I would have such a fellow wbipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod: pray... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...offends me to the soul , to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters , to^very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who (...and noise : I would have such a- fellow whipp'd for o'erdomg termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you , avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 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 whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...periwig- pated6 fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ;7 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant;8 it out-herods Herod:9... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...periwig-pated8 fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;7 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ;8 it out-herods Herod... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings6"; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant63; it out-herods Herod:... | |
 | 734 pages
...very disgusting in the imitation. ." Qh it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious pcrriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags ; to...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise." Hamlet." We cannot pass qver this quotation without a mark of censure on the sentence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it ofl'ends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-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 whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod... | |
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