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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in progress to which ... - Page 85
by Robert Deverell - 1813
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O ! reform it altogether. And let those, that play your...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 Players. Enter...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O ! reform it altogether. And let those, that play your...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 Players. Enter...
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. lit Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready....
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. l st Plag. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that use* it. Go, make you ready....
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...humanity so abominably. l Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently * with us, sir. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...speak no more than is set down for them : for there he of them, that will thimiselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...abominably. , Play. I warrant your honour. Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...of the play be • then to be considered : that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 1. What does Hamlet say is...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...Herod in the ancient mysteries vras always violent. 3 te impression or resemblance, as in a print. that play your clowns speak no more than is set down...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go ; make you ready....
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Tarlton's Jests: And News Out of Purgatory, Volume 4

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English wit and humor - 1844 - 198 pages
...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience. 1 To this absurd custom Hamlet alludes when he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." Several specimens, probably genuine, are related in the following pages. Doggrel verse was generally...
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Publications, Volume 20

Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 192 pages
...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience.1 To this absurd custom Hamlet alludes when he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." 1 See Malone's Shakespeare, ed. 1821, iii., 131, for several curious quotations on this subject. Several...
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Tecumseh and the prophet of the West, an historical tragedy. The life and ...

George Jones - 1844 - 278 pages
...attribute the following professional rebuke ?—" And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians), speak no more than is set down for them ; for there...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered :—that's villainous, and shews...
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