| 单词 | groundling |
| 例句 | Here’s a little secret, though: I wouldn’t completely mind if I were something other than a groundling. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I shook my head, too much of a groundling to speak up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But then what about that image I’ve always had—of leaving the groundlings behind? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z That at heart, I’m a groundling, and I’ll always be one. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I know I’ve always been all about the groundlings and the silk feathered hats, but right then Victoria didn’t seem like a snob and I didn’t feel like a groundling. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But that doesn’t help me with the whole “leave the groundlings behind and get on Maddie’s level” plan. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And soon I’ll be able to leave groundling status, simply based on this movie I’m making, which’ll force people to see me and the message I want to send to the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And I’m beyond tired of being a groundling and blending into the walls all the time. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Did he feel that, as a groundling, I should just be grateful for any attention he threw my way? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But Shakespeare would never have gotten famous if he hadn’t appealed to the groundlings. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The movie was helping elevate me past groundling status, just like I’d hoped. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We groundlings have to watch out for each other. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z That’s one thing that hasn’t changed even after Maddie gave up her groundling membership and became one of the silk feathered hat people. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Maddie stopped calling him that when she stopped being a groundling. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z So what hope did I, a mere groundling, have? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z How we’d finally just confessed our feelings to each other, one groundling to another, seeing and being seen. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It had brought together the groundlings and the silk feathered hats for the first time in the history of PPC’s existence. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But I was definitely, in no uncertain terms, reminded of my groundling status. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I could see Maddie watching us groundlings, her lips clamped together like she was trying hard not to laugh. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I wasn’t a silk feathered hat person, but just for that period of time, I wasn’t a groundling either. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And then there were the snooty people in the back, who got to sit in, like, covered areas and look down at the groundlings and feel all superior in their silk feathered hats. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The entitlement that came with being one of the silk feathered hats—that all the groundlings were there simply to kowtow to your every need. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The wide-openness of Rockefeller Park shifted the play’s balance to favor broad comedy, turning us all into groundlings. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for a Nimble Audience 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z How do you involve the groundlings, surrounding you on three sides? All's Well That Ends Well – review 2012-06-01T09:14:00Z Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images A silk-suited oligarch rides high above the crowds in the Russian pavilion, booted and saddled on a lofty beam, idly tossing peanut shells on the worthless groundlings below. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z The groundlings, they love the body humor, they love the clowns, they love the love stories and the battles. Women's empowerment is not "kicking ass in bikinis": Julie Taymor on what real feminism looks like 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Spectators in wooden boxes on the panelled stage are as close as groundlings to the action. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z Beside that was a patch of hard-pressed gravel, part of the area where the "groundlings" - theatergoers holding cheap standing-room-only tickets - crowded together to watch plays. New playhouse planned for Shakespeare theater site 2010-07-16T14:41:00Z Before a word has even been spoken, we see the “groundlings” — playgoers who stand in the central well throughout the show, poor weather notwithstanding — poking their heads through a spandex-like black covering. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z This is a "Henry V" in which French and English statesmen are allowed to pitch their nationalistic cases directly and persuasively to the groundlings in the audience at their feet. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z It doesn't help that the actors seem swallowed up by the big stage and make little use of the proximity of the groundlings beyond a strange, open-handed entreaty to the audience at the end. Coriolanus – review 2012-05-25T09:40:46Z For now, it’s merely a failing enterprise, with rowdy audiences of groundlings who’d rather mosh than be moved by the spoken word. Perspective | Summer TV 2017: ‘Snowfall,’ ‘Prime Suspect’ are a good place to start 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z We should learn the size of the yard – and therefore how many groundlings could be packed in for a penny a head – and possibly, from the size of the foundations, how tall the galleries rose. Does the rediscovery of Shakespeare's Curtain theatre matter? Absolutely 2012-06-07T13:42:07Z Her unvarnished sincerity is of little use to her here, so she dives into the villainy with the relish of a Jacobean performer delighting the groundlings with macabre flourishes. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal accused the novelist of disingenuousness: "He reads like a university don telling dirty jokes to astonish the groundlings while never letting them forget how well he knows his Milton." Lionel Asbo savaged, Martin Amis mauled by US media 2012-08-23T16:55:00Z But I can’t say I mind this new, pulpier version’s willingness to play to the groundlings. In ‘Game of Thrones,’ the Pleasures of a Quickened Pace 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z There are seated gallery tickets that run as high as £45, but the frugal among us know where the real deal is: standing in the yard, with the rest of the groundlings. How to See London Theater on the Cheap 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Shakespeare definitely knew how to keep the groundlings happy – that's something we all strive for as writers. Shakespeare and me: Meera Syal 2012-06-30T23:07:05Z The section of the theater where the groundlings stand? ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Even her execution is a bizarre form of theater: the headsman skulking around the platform like a mustachioed villain, the audience gasping like groundlings at each ripple of stagecraft. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: In Finale, King Henry's Masque and Anne's Little Neck 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z When Anne finally decides to go to bed with Henry, she looks out into the groundlings and calls for an interval of – um – 15 minutes. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Its dramatic verities are the sort that not only stirred the groundlings at Shakespeare's Globe but also kept "Dallas" going for 14 seasons — 17 if you figure in the reboot. 'King Lear' meets 'Dynasty' in the hip-hop-fueled 'Empire' 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Through these seemingly frivolous details, Swen says, “they’re having kind of the experience of being an actual groundling in Shakespeare’s time.” How to improvise a wildly entertaining new Shakespeare play every night 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Cellphones do not need to be switched to airplane mode, so you can chat up the groundlings below. Private jet travel is booming. No, you still can’t afford it. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The dynamic they create is convincingly contemporary, a tension that plays as compellingly in the digital age as it did in the days of the groundlings. Review | This just in! ‘Much Ado’ set in a TV news studio is nothing but fun 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The vision, following the model set by Shakespeare and the ancient Greeks, was to bring all strata of society together — groundlings, swells and everyone in between. Once upon a time, a theatrical 'Dream' came true at the Hollywood Bowl 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z But 300 "groundlings", who will watch plays in a roofless replica Elizabethan theatre in the city this summer, will hope "this sun of York" shines on them. Shakespeare theatre pops up in York 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Compare today with Shakespearean-era Globe Theatre audiences with groundlings, boisterous Comedie-Francaise fans or ancient Greeks taking in epic tragedies and large wineskins of retsina outdoors. Opinion | Audience members’ bad behavior 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z But we groundlings love a sideshow and always have, making us susceptible to promotional stunts like these for as as long as anyone can remember. The Mayweather-McGregor farce is the event our idiocracy deserves 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z There was plenty to entertain scholars and groundlings alike. Selfies, puns and codpieces galore at the Shakespeare street festival 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z One wonders if so many of the GOP’s groundlings would still flock to Trump’s banner if they were aware of how consciously he is manipulating them, and their anger. It’s not just Donald Trump — politics has always been about entertainment 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The answer was: it was not comfortable to be a groundling back in Shakespeare’s day, even if you were wearing supportive footwear, which the groundlings weren’t. Stand down. If Wimbledon’s Royal Box holds elites, the grassy mound outside Centre Court, known as Henman Hill, is home to Wimbledon’s groundlings. Wimbledon 2012: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic breeze into semis, joining Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2012-07-05T00:00:13Z Liszt was called a charlatan, and doubtless partially deserved the appellation, in the sense that he very often played for effect's sake, for the sake of dazzling the groundlings. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Our groundlings wanted women to go to bed with. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z His remarks tickled the ears of the groundlings. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z There his groundling days try the aviator's dignity. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Instead of sporting aloft in airy skyward flights, I am now a miserable groundling. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z They are known as "groundlings" and pay the lowest price for entry. Globe celebrates first two PhDs 2012-02-23T00:54:50Z To our sorry groundling minds the old pleasaunce may seem too rich and fantastic, too spectacular, too much idealised. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z He was a practical politician before he "took the stump" against Christianity, and at all times he has proved his capacity to "split the ears of the groundlings," and make the unskillful laugh. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Miles makes his appearance, and after some comic dialogue, intended to tickle the ears of the groundlings, mounts astride the demon’s back, and goes off to ——! Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Delighting the groundlings and appealing to the current interest in witchcraft, they are none the less essential to the drama, inwrapt in the conception of character. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Intriguingly, the queens appear to keep workers in line by literally pushing them around, and when a royal mole-rat encounters a groundling in a tunnel she shoves it backward or walks over it. Naked Mole-Rats Offer Clues to Living Longer 2011-12-21T13:45:00.230Z The people crowd, the groundlings jostle, men of quality press forward to the platform. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z But a minute before all had been happiness, such happiness as a family of miserable groundlings might dare to feel, and now—— Bah! The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z There are merely allusions by the contemporary playwrights to the French dancing-master, fencer, or sweep, equally unable to pronounce English correctly, to the great merriment of the "groundlings." The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z In the sheer height of his enthusiasm, the soaring visionary was losing touch with the hard-headed groundling in the chair. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z We would crawl round such an occupying structure, diminished groundlings, as one would move about the base of a foreboding, plutonic building whose limits and meaning were ominous and baffling. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z It is a warfare which the groundling habits of the golden-wings make them more ready to engage in than any other of the woodpecker clans. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Ignorant, noisy, malodorous, too fond of dances and songs and dirty jokes, of soldiers and trumpets and cannon, the groundling might be: but he liked poetry. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Lord Rosebery laughed them to scorn; And soon Mr. Gosse and the groundlings were snarling At one who must style himself Nobody's Darling! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z But the opinions of the groundlings may be explained by their desire to shake off the yoke. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z It was in Shakespeare’s day that the nobility and groundlings together resorted to the playhouse, constituting themselves at once the patrons and pupils of the drama. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z The first great exponent of the “suppressed emotion” school began, and in California too, as it happened, by splitting the ears of the groundlings and sawing the air with both arms. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The audience was not composed mainly of groundlings; and even the groundlings in that age had drama in their blood. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The orchestra, we fear, must have rather "split the ears of the groundlings." William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Nevertheless, the contempt inspired by the groundling served the Englishman in good stead at a critical moment. The Great Mogul Perhaps this was on account of the mixed character of the audience, the “groundlings” being too busy cracking nuts to take in an important situation merely from its narration. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Sometimes he read aloud from books whose pages were, to the young listener, gates swinging open upon gilded glimpses of chivalry, heroism and those thoughts which are not groundling but winged and splendid. The Tempering It was overshadowed by a projecting roof; but the area, or ‘yard,’ where the groundlings stood, was open to the weather, and accordingly the theatre could not be darkened. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The groundlings within the yard grow infinitely unruly. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 In instant consternation, the whole family trooped after him, so far as groundlings could, while he flew from tree to tree and roof to roof. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road There is no record of a poet or musician having created a masterpiece through pandering to the “groundlings.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z A small fish, known also as “the groundling.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare How often he has leaned metaphorically upon his sword and surveyed with scornful contempt the fawning groundlings, the Roman Adonises, the shouting rabble! The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 His highly-colored speech had drawn a small crowd of super-revolutionists about him, childish, genuine groundlings, who wanted to be keener than the blade of which they were only the handle. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 This sort of thing may impress the groundlings, while a real Earl or Duke remains untouched. When Ghost Meets Ghost Booth's facetious remarks during his son's marriage according to the Army forms were well adapted to tickle the ears of his groundlings. Arrows of Freethought They were there for literary effect, and for the pleasure of the groundlings. The Quality of Mercy Theme rather than treatment was best calculated to "tickle the groundlings." William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts I began life—poor groundling as I prove— Winged and ambitious to fly high: why not? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow —— a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions It will not do to “tickle the ears of the groundlings” with high-sounding phrases of human progress, while he fetters their limbs with manacles of iron. The Land of Thor I felt that Anita was somehow the cause; but, even so, how had he succeeded in convincing Roebuck that I must be clipped and plucked into a groundling? Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Still, it is heart-rending to think I shall never rise above the sordid earth, always remain a mere groundling! Parables from Flowers Sitting there in her room, she smiled as she remembered with what a start of surprise she had recognized one among the groundlings in front of the stage after the performance. The Panchronicon Undoubtedly, the "groundlings" shouted with delight when this fiend was plunged into the boiling caldron which he had heated for others. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Political parties began to invent programmes to capture the groundlings. The Cult of Incompetence But when I fail the groundlings shall look up And see their brothers through the ether plunge, Stricken, a haggard rout of flame-flotillas of the sun! Pan and Æolus: Poems But never mind,' she added more cheerfully; 'even groundlings can do good sometimes, so I'll take courage, and hope for the best.' Parables from Flowers It is odd, too, that a bird which is so much of a groundling—I use the term in a good sense, of course—should also be so expert a sky-scraper. Birds of the Rockies Between the intervals of the band the bells, in discordant chorus, regaled ‘the ears of the groundlings.’ The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I The Fool is no comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh,—no forced condescension of Shakespeare's genius to the taste of his audience. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Miss Kilrain took her place with them, but she was not of them; the High School populace, gazing up from the groundling’s point of view, in serried 265ranks below, felt that. Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart Almost his only concession to the groundlings is the star-gazing episode of Lady Froth and Brisk: a mistake, because it spoils her inconsequent folly, but a small matter. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] Two shadowy forms, that were groundlings at another time, took wings and flew in a neat parabola over the windscreen, striking the metal surface of the road with a single thud. Men of Affairs The six-penny spectators, or "groundlings," stood in the yard, or pit, which had neither floor nor roof. Brief History of English and American Literature This would have been a great stroke of policy in the eyes of a groundling, for the action never failed to catch the audience, and then the applause was uproarious. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Nothing tickles the vanity of the groundlings like this sort of verbal fireworks. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques I had, of course, some knowledge of my ancestors, but I had no idea that we were quite such an undistinguished rabble of groundlings for so long. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions But even the basest of the yokels and groundlings could not make merry over the cozening of so noble a gentleman! The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Shakespeare made Hamlet comprehensible to the groundlings by diluting that half of him which was Shakespeare with a half which was a college sophomore. A Book of Prefaces A jewel had been left in the heart of every groundling trefoil and clover-leaf, and the long rays that twinkled to them were still just tinged with rose. Strangers at Lisconnel And that fixed star in the pianistic firmament, one who refuses to descend to earth and please the groundlings—Rafael Joseffy—is for me the most satisfying of all the pianists. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Indeed, some of the scenes in Shakespeare's plays, in which madness is depicted, and which seem tragic to us, probably had a comic value for the groundlings before whom the plays were first produced. The Age of the Reformation He is of old standing, a veteran of the Church Epiphany plays, and has already learnt 'to split the ears of the groundlings' with the stentorian sound of his pompous rhetoric. The Growth of English Drama Realistic "effects," however speciously beautiful they may be, invariably tend to realism of that primal type, which satisfies the predilections of the groundling, and reduces drama to the level of the cinematograph. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays There is a kind of democracy of crime, contended for by Mr. Freeman, that has its charms to the ears of the groundlings. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. Who, grown familiar with the sky, will grope Henceforward among groundlings? An Introduction to the Study of Browning Hamilton Burton regarded himself as the brother of monarchs and it devolves upon the Crown to face the envious animosity of groundlings. Destiny They do not attempt to "split the ears of the groundlings," and yet they are addressed to the commonest of the world's common people. The Young Man and the World The playgoing mob always includes groundlings who delight exclusively in dumb shows and noise. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Perhaps he despised them as mere stuff for the groundlings. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Having torn the poor little peasant Love to tatters, Miss Hopkins descended to us groundlings. A Woman Named Smith Let him split the ears of the groundlings, let him out-Herod Herod,—the judicious might grieve, but all would be excitedly attentive. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin These sallies of wit were meant rather to "tickle the ears of the groundlings" than as just subjects for criticism by later scholars. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction There were pits furnished with seats, in place of the yards, as they were called, of the public theatres, in which the "groundlings" were compelled to stand throughout the performance. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He came down from the Morality plays, and was beloved of the groundlings. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth He had long played skillfully upon credulity and ignorance; he had frittered away his life in contentions with groundlings. A Hoosier Chronicle She moves on far too high a plane for a groundling like me. My Friend Prospero It was the liveliest possible spectacle of organized confusion, and the accompanying noise was calculated to split the ears of the groundlings. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 The "groundlings" had given place to people of fashion and social distinction. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He is grotesque; no doubt the contrast he affords is humorous as well as ghastly; I dare say the groundlings roared with laughter at his coarsest remarks. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Nor can one judge otherwise even when he stands before so humiliating an exhibition of groundling bigotry as is presented by some of the religious sects of the present day. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow He speech on Uganda, so far as its thought and its phraseology were concerned, was on the level of the profound utterances with which Sir Ashmead Bartlett tickles and infuriates the groundlings of provincial audiences. Sketches in the House (1893) An awkward guest for an unsuspected murderer; for the groundling whose heredity had not been conquered by brain. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Both are regarded as unworthy means of winning the applause of the "groundlings" in one case, and the laughter of "barren spectators" in the other. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character It has been thought that the whole of the last part of i. v., from the entrance of Horatio and Marcellus, follows the old play closely, and that Shakespeare is condescending to the groundlings. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth "On formal occasions, and to take in the groundlings," said Darrell, too impatient to let her finish her sentence. The Marriage of William Ashe It may well be that the political groundlings who are at present the backbone of the Sinn Féin movement will, when they gain political experience, alter their views in as complete a manner. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement At the same time the platform receded, and the groundlings no longer stood about it on the sides. The Theory of the Theatre The "dumb shows" referred to by Hamlet, however, were not so much distinct entertainments as excrescences upon the regular performances of the theatre, interpolations to win the applause of the groundlings. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character I believe that it is what Shakespeare intended, and that he despised the groundlings if they laughed. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth His gestures are designed not to impress, enrapture or englamour the musical groundlings, but to convey his sharply defined wishes to his men and transmit to them the flaming enthusiasm that consumes him. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Then the manager made a little speech and called, for three cheers for the proprietor, and they gave them with a fervor that nearly split the ears of the groundlings. As Seen By Me He wanted what the French term a tirade to exercise his lungs and split the ears of the groundlings. The Theory of the Theatre We all know Shakespeare's opinion of "the groundlings," and how he held them to be, "for the most part, capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Don't forget that millions is the crest of the groundlings.' Friday, the Thirteenth In the little lake at the end of the garden there were numbers of carp and groundling. Liza "A nest of nobles" Their humour is too bright and lovely for the groundlings. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Just why the orb of day had to be saluted with such frequency no one seemed able to determine, but the honour was continually bestowed, to the great edification of the groundlings. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield While the groundlings were crowding to see new plays by Shirley and Massinger, the editor of this volume was examining fresh varieties of auricula in "the gardens of Mr. Tradescant and Mr. Tuggie." Gossip in a Library The six-penny spectators, or "groundlings," stood in the yard or pit, which had neither floor nor roof. From Chaucer to Tennyson I feel sure she could shock and at the same time please the groundlings if she let herself go. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919 That's not argument, but simply empty declamation intended to tickle the ears of the groundlings—to raise a whoop among the gallery gods. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 I think this impression was due in a great measure to Wigan's entire absence of affectation, and to his persistent appeal to the 'judicious' but never to the 'groundlings.' Tracks of a Rolling Stone Further you deny the importance of action in the drama and assert it to be a worthless accident, a sop for the groundlings! The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II To tickle the ears of the groundlings, this must have been delivered in grandiloquent mimicry with all the paraphernalia of the tragic style. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Under the calm ascension of the night We heard the mellow lapsing and return Of night-owls purring in their groundling flight Through lanes of darkling fern. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 It must be repeated that the whole famous scene is better contrived for the groundlings in a theater than for the lover of great dramatic poetry. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The groundlings and common people, with their "greasy caps" and "stinking breath" were as loathsome to Shakespeare as the crop-headed, gain-loving citizens who condemned him and his like pitilessly. The Man Shakespeare The voluntary profanity and the impure jests that so often offend the ears of decent people at the theatre, are put forth to call out a cheer from groundlings whose praise is always essential disgrace. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Man was not made to be a mere groundling. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada The Fool is no comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh,—no forced condescension of Shakspeare's genius to the taste of his audience. Literary Remains, Volume 2 I felt that Anita was somehow, in part at least, the cause; but, even so, how had he succeeded in convincing Roebuck that I must be clipped and plucked into a groundling? The Deluge They are all players together, and this is a kind of stage rant designed to impress the groundlings, who, after all, compose the larger part of the audience. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 If the president orders out the horses before their time, he will hear remarks by no means complimentary from the austere groundlings. Castilian Days Skip went on the stand, reveling in his first experience of fame, basking in the spot-light like a cheap actor, and acting very badly, yet well enough for the groundlings he amused. We Can't Have Everything The frequenters of the pit, who often jostled each other for standing room, were sometimes called the "groundlings." Halleck's New English Literature "They are men without force, groundlings, the common trash from the earth with whom the best do not mingle." The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story Few but must have noticed him; for the accident, which brought him low, took place during the riots of 1780, and he has been a groundling so long. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia The Prior's complaint, that Leonardo had too many irons in the fire, was the universal cry the groundlings raised against him. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists It was as mystifying to experienced pilots as to groundlings who have trouble in identifying conventional planes. The Flying Saucers are Real In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carp and groundlings. A House of Gentlefolk In costive cases, limpets from the shell Are a cheap way the evil to dispel, With groundling sorrel: but white Coan neat You'll want to make the recipe complete. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry Let us go and hold high carnival for a week, and split the ears of the groundlings with our "contemptible squeals of joy." Birds and Poets : with Other Papers It is written to split the ears of the groundlings, or rather to astonish and confuse them, for the Chopin dynamics in the early music are never very rude. Chopin : the Man and His Music Canvasclimbers who sailed with Drake chew their sausages among the groundlings. Ulysses In his heart of hearts he rather despised this species of composition, entertaining the notion that it was something to be done quickly, if at all, and utilizable to please the groundlings. Balzac Of course the thing is perfect, in the magazine, without the train-boy; but I was thinking of the stage and the groundlings. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) At this rate, a man has his reputation in his own hands, and, by the help of puffing and the press, may forestall the voice of posterity, and stun the 'groundling' ear of his contemporaries. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners He had a real, if unobtrusive, contempt for groundlings, of whatever class; and it never entered his head to step an inch out of his course in deference to their vagaries. The Patrician So they both blustered through the world, the one in deed, the other in word; and both played their parts with so little refinement that they frightened the groundlings to a timid admiration. A Book of Scoundrels |
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