A Study of Hamlet, Volume 110Longmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... father , 10. Hamlet's weakness of action , 10 ; his sympathy for good and contempt of evil , 12 ; fidelity to friends , 12 ; uncongeniality of his position , 12-13 . Summary of remarks , 13-14 ; reasons for making them , 14. Voltaire's ...
... father , 10. Hamlet's weakness of action , 10 ; his sympathy for good and contempt of evil , 12 ; fidelity to friends , 12 ; uncongeniality of his position , 12-13 . Summary of remarks , 13-14 ; reasons for making them , 14. Voltaire's ...
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... father . No one can ever hope to appre- ciate Hamlet who does not cherish unsullied within his soul , in youth , in maturity , and in old age , that reverential love of parents which is the foundation - stone of all social virtue . The ...
... father . No one can ever hope to appre- ciate Hamlet who does not cherish unsullied within his soul , in youth , in maturity , and in old age , that reverential love of parents which is the foundation - stone of all social virtue . The ...
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... father's sudden death would have reached him at the University of Wittenburg : it is most probable that the first parting between him and his father had taken place when he went to that town to complete his education . He hurried back ...
... father's sudden death would have reached him at the University of Wittenburg : it is most probable that the first parting between him and his father had taken place when he went to that town to complete his education . He hurried back ...
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... father's memory would cause in a nature like Hamlet's , prevented him from dwelling on the mortification which he must have suffered on finding himself ousted from the throne by his incestuous uncle . It is natural that Hamlet should at ...
... father's memory would cause in a nature like Hamlet's , prevented him from dwelling on the mortification which he must have suffered on finding himself ousted from the throne by his incestuous uncle . It is natural that Hamlet should at ...
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... father's brother , but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month ; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes , She married . O , most wicked speed , to post With such dexterity ...
... father's brother , but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month ; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes , She married . O , most wicked speed , to post With such dexterity ...
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Page 45 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling.
Page 39 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? — To die, — to sleep...
Page 72 - Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 18 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this ! But two months dead I nay, not so much, not two : So excellent a king ; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 40 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 18 - O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! " Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter...
Page 25 - Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long...
Page 161 - At gaming, swearing ; or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't ; — • Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven ; And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes.
Page 119 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 175 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar...