 | 1838 - 544 pages
...to produce effect in personating different characters ; that great poet makes Hamlet say, — '•' It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters." In the reign of King Charles the First, long hair had become fashionable at the court, and as all were... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...them to produce effect in personating different characters ; that great poet makes Hamlet say, — " It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters." In the reign of King Charles the First, long hair had become fashionable at the court, and as all were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 530 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 very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; 3 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and i See note on Act... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...Roman of them alL" BDWIX VORBBST. " 0, It offends me to the ionl, to hear a robustious perlwlg-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. I would have such a fellow whipped foro'erdolng termagant; it out-herod* Herod : I pray you, avoid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 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 groundlings,2 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise... | |
 | 1845 - 970 pages
...groundlings. Shirley calls them unrferstanders, as there were no seats then in the pit. P. 1 83. " Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings," &c. See Overbury's Characters, (the Actor,) p. 210, " He doth not strive to make nature monstrous ;... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1845 - 830 pages
...earthworms, whose souls never have felt the sacred unction, may " mouth" a speech, and " saw the air," and " tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of groundlings," and are no more eloquent than a child, tricked out with his feather and wooden sword... | |
 | 1845 - 818 pages
...earthworms, whose souls never have felt the sacred unction, may " mouth" a speech, and " saw the air," and " tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of groundlings," and are no more eloquent than a child, tricked out with his feather and wooden sword... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...earthworms, whose souls never have felt the sacred unction, may " mouth" a speech, and " saw the air," and " tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of groundlings," and are no more eloquent than a child, tricked out with his feather and wooden sword... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...- 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 fellow, \ to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, \ are capable of nothing... | |
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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. 
