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The Tatler, Volume 1

English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellow'd, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had...play be then to be considered: that's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' From my own Apartment, June 29. IT would be...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be const*. dtj-red : that 's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." From my ou-n Apartment, June 29. It would be a very great obligation, and an assistance to my treatise upon...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...the mean time, some necessary question 3 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 Players. Enter POLOINUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. How now, my...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...in the mean time, some necessary 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 Players. Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. Ham. Bid the...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...the mean time, some necessary 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 Players. Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. How now, my...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...in the mean time, some necessary 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 Players. Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. How now, my...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...in the mean time, some necessary 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. — [Exit FIRST ACTOR. Horatio ! — Enter HORATIO. Hor. Here, sweet lord, at your...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...in the mean time, some necessary 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. — [Exit FIRST ACTOR. Horatio ! — Ham. Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1809 - 382 pages
...allowance, o'er-weigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly — not to speak...play be then to be considered : that's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." From my own Apartment, June 29It would be...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 48

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 610 pages
...excused if he were to pursue the quotation and go the whole length of averring that ' it is vilhinous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' Quickness has justly been observed by Mr. Landor to be amongst the least of the mind's properties....
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