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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ... - Page 217
by William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 345 pages
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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...to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : — that's mllianous, and shews a most pitiful ambition...
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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 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...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villanous ; and shows...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6

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...laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition...
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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...laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition...
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Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

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...laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition...
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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termazaunt is the...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 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...laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

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...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's vile, and shows a most...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic, Volume 10

1837 - 336 pages
...practice is indirectly impeached by' Shakspeare in Hamlet's address to the players, in which he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows...
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