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There are gawky dumbshows of him stooping to enter rooms, and a very funny routine about being made to sit by the emergency exit on aeroplanes.
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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 dumbshows and noise: I would have such
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Oh, 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 dumbshows and noise! ... '"
Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903
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