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" O ! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who, for the most part, arc capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise. "
Public Speaking and Debate: With an Essay on Sacred Eloquence by Henry ... - Page 166
by George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 234 pages
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...give it smoothness. O!» ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, pcrriwig pated fellow fear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the jjroundlings ; who (for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise....
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...to have worn them most generally. So, in Every Woman in her Humour, 1609 ; " — as none wear hood* passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings 6 ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise 7 : I would...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 490 pages
...acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to near a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;i who, for uie most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show, and noise:...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that, may give it smoothness. O ! il offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to titters, to very rags, to. split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to . the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated6 fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings7 ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise;...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 84

1823 - 588 pages
...good sense can scarcely present to you a more ridiculous figure. Behold him in the. act of ' tearing a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings,' groaned at by the boxes, hissed by the galleries, pelted by the pit (here Dick gave an involuntary...
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The Plays, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire, and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated...to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlingsf ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...whirlwind ofyour passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give Ц smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear» passion to tatter?, to very rags, to split the earl of the groundlings 5; who, for the most part, are...
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Oxberry's dramatic biography and histrionic anecdotes [ed. by C.E ..., Volume 2

1825 - 332 pages
...to the soul, to see a robustuous perriwig-pated fellow tearing a passion to rags, to very tatters, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are incapable of every thing but inexplicable dumb shew and noise." In fine, though this player has been...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...quarto has, ' I'd rather hear a town-ball bellow, than such a fellow speak my lines.' ' VOL. X. . Z a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to...to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings 2 : who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would...
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