The Gull's HornbookDe la More Press, 1905 - 126 páginas |
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Página 63 - It shall crown you with rich commendation to laugh aloud in the midst of the most serious and saddest scene of the terriblest tragedy ; and to let that clapper, your tongue, be tossed so high, that all the house may ring of it.
Página 62 - By sitting on the stage you may, with small cost, purchase the dear acquaintance of the boys; have a good stool for six-pence; at any time know what particular part any of the infants present; get your match lighted; examine the play-suits' lace, and perhaps win wagers upon laying it is copper, &c.
Página 66 - Marry, if either the company or indisposition of the weather bind you to sit it out, my counsel is then that you turn plain ape, take up a rush and tickle the earnest ears of your fellow gallants to make other fools fall alaughing, mew at passionate speeches, blare at merry, find fault with the music, whew at the children's action, whistle at the songs...
Página 25 - ... with an empress, his heart cannot be at quiet till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other : yea, so greatly are we indebted to this kinsman of death, that we owe the better tributary half of our life to him ; and there is good cause why we should do so ; for sleep is that golden chain that ties health, and our bodies together...
Página 41 - ... but bend your course directly in the middle line, that the whole body of the church may appear to be yours : where, in view of all, you may publish your suit in what manner you affect most, either with the slide of your cloak from the one shoulder : and then you must, as 'twere in anger, suddenly snatch at the middle of the inside, if it be...
Página 120 - ... action, whistle at the songs, and above all curse the sharers that, whereas the same day you had bestowed forty shillings on an embroidered felt and feather...
Página 67 - Hoard up the finest play-scraps you can get ; upon which your lean wit may most savourly feed, for want of other stuff, when the Arcadian and Euphuized gentlewomen have their tongues sharpened to set upon you...
Página 61 - By sitting on the stage you have a signed patent to engross the whole commodity of censure, may lawfully presume to be a guider, and stand at the helm to steer the passage of scenes ; yet no man shall once offer to hinder you from obtaining the title of an insolent overweening coxcomb.
Página 74 - ... and no further ; for to traverse the bill would betray you to be acquainted with the rates of the market ; nay more ; it would make the vintners believe you were pater familias, and kept a house ; which, I assure you, is not now in fashion.
Página 60 - I mean not into the lords' room (which is now but the stage's suburbs): no, those boxes, by the iniquity of custom, conspiracy of waiting-women and gentlemen-ushers that there sweat together, and the covetousness of sharers, are contemptibly thrust into the rear, and much new satin is there damned, by being smothered to death in darkness. But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estridge, like a piece of ordnance, be planted...