 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, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have...  The British Essayists: The Tatler - Page 208by Alexander Chalmers - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. Oh ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show, and noise; I would have such a fellow whipped, for overdoing termagant; it out-herods Herod;... | |
 | Martin Harrison - Drama - 1998 - 334 pages
...of the sound similarity. groundlings 'O, it offends me to the soul to see a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise' i 1600. Hamlet, III.ii). The name for the members of the audience in an Elizabethan/Jacobean... | |
 | Michael Kurland, Richard A. Lupoff - Self-Help - 1999 - 406 pages
...temperance, that may give it smoothness. O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.... | |
 | Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - Drama - 1999 - 268 pages
...temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...most part are capable of nothing but -inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to totters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings,...most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant - it out-Herods Herod.... | |
 | Jean Battlo - Appalachian Region - 1999 - 76 pages
...periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tattlers to very rags. To split the ears of the goundlings, who (for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise. I would LAUREN. Oh, my Lord, don't mouth any more of it! Sam, do you have any idea... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to 10 very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who...part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod, pray... | |
 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to totters, to very rags, to spleet the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. [. . .] Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the... | |
 | David Norton - Bibles - 2000 - 526 pages
...saying, 'well, frankly . . .', is no prince but one of the groundlings Hamlet himself is so scornful of, 'the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise' (3: 2). The modern prince condemns the present by die groundlings and reveres... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to...part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-Herods Herod. Pray... | |
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