And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then... The Tatler - Page 2661803Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...here see that he had abundant reason for his precept in Hamlet : " Let those that play your chums, speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them, that will of themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though m the 'mean... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to let on tome quantity of harren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...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 clowns,...them :^ for there be of them, that will themselves [2] The groundlings. — The meaner people then sfem to have sat below, 93 they now Bit in the upper... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...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 clowns, speak no more than is set down for ahem :8 for there be of them, that will themselves [2] The groundlings. — The meaner people then... | |
| William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of Nature. 47- ACTORS. • Let those who play clowns speak no more than is set down for them. For there be that will themselves laugh to set some quantity of barren spectators to laugh also. This shews a most... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...in the time of Shakspeare, and we here see that he had abundant reason for his precept in Hamlet : " Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than...set down for them ; for there be of them, that will of themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean... | |
| William Dunlap - 1813 - 410 pages
...low comic characters^ which they frequently did, they never lost sight of " and let your clowns say no more than is set down for them : For there be of them," &c. " I have heard some comedians, contemporaries of my own, who have expressed a desire to act Shylock... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...humanity so abominably. I Play. I hope, we have reformed that indiObrently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns,...them : for there be of them, that will themselves langh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to langh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary... | |
| English plays - 1815 - 450 pages
...unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of l,\ Shukspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will... | |
| Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 456 pages
...and unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of by Shakspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will... | |
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