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" ... in the very torrent, 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 hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very... "
A grammar of elocution - Page 211
by John Millard (elocution master in the City of Lond. sch.) - 1882 - 216 pages
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb fhews and neife : I could have fuch a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray...avoid it. BE not too tame neither ; but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the aftion to the word, the word to the action, with this fpecial obfervance,...
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1

Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1786 - 516 pages
...dumb " dumb fliews *, and noife : I would have fuck <ca fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing TERMA" GANTf ; it out-herods HEROD } : pray you, *' avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let " your own difcretion be your tutor : fuit the '* action to the word, the word to the aftion ; '* with this fpecial...
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Hamlet. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...smoothness. O, it qffends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion tp tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings;...most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews., and noise : I wouhl i • ' Jwe I have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears...most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shew, and noise: I would have such a fellow wbipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod:...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears...most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews, and noise : I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears...most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod:...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...offends me to the soul , to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters , to^very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who (...most part ) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews and noise : I would have such a- fellow whipp'd for o'erdomg termagant ; it out-herods Herod....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant ;8 it out-herods Herod :9 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, " per\\v\g-paterl — ] This is a ridicule on the quantity of false hair worn in Shakspeare's time,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...o'er-doing Termagant;8 it out-herods Herod:9 Pray you, avoid it. 1 Play. I warrant your honour. Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, 8 periwig-paterf — ] This is a ridicule on the quantity of false hair worn in Shakspeare's time,...
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The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 502 pages
...inexplicable dumb ihows, and noife : I could have fuch a fellow "whipp'd-for o'erdoing terjnagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. " Be not too tame neither; but let your own difcretion be your tutor. Suit the aftion to the word, the word to the aftion, with this fpecial obfcrvance,...
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