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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ... - Page 52
by William Shakespeare - 1818
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. O ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwigpaled fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whippet! (or o'erdoing termagant ; it outherods Herod. — Pray you, avoid...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul,...to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;j who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, perriwig pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul,...robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tat10 lets, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who, for the most part, are capable...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature

Liberalism (Religion) - 1829 - 930 pages
...temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh ! 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 show and noise : I could have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod....
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 18

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...n. ». j vigorous; violent; requiring strength : the noun-substantive corresponding. It offends me to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion...to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. SItatupeare. These redundant locks, Robuitious to no purpose, clustering down, Vain monument of strength....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul,...of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise; I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant;" itout-herods Herod:° Pray you, avoid...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul,...to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;1" who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise...
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Miscellaneous Essays

Mathew Carey - African Americans - 1830 - 480 pages
...robustious porriwig-pated follow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the oars of tho groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of...dumb shows, and noise : 1 would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it ont-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither,...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-show and noise. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither ; but let your own discretion be your...
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