 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...  The Monthly Magazine - Page 251812Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...censure which he is about to utter. Any gross or implicate lar.guajre was called prtfotu. JOHNSON. 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 to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...censure which he is ai'out to utter- Any gross or indelicate Ianguag" wns called profane. JOHNSON. 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 to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 pages
...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...spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous ; and shews a most pitiful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...that play your clowns, 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 in the mean time some necessary question of tlie play be then to be considered" This practice was undoubtedly coeval with... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...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...spectators to laugh too; though in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...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...spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : 8 for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; In our early playhouses, the pit.had neither floor nor benches. Hence the term of groundlings for... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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...spectators to laugh too : though in the mean time, some necessary part of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition... | |
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