A Study of Hamlet, Volume 110Longmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... language , with which but very few of his audience were familiar : he has , by his performance of Othello and Hamlet , won a position among Englishmen , as an in- terpreter of Shakespeare , which few of our own countrymen have gained ...
... language , with which but very few of his audience were familiar : he has , by his performance of Othello and Hamlet , won a position among Englishmen , as an in- terpreter of Shakespeare , which few of our own countrymen have gained ...
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... language , and the proper number of feet ; but in very few lines do they contain anything which can touch the heart , charm the imagination , or elevate the soul . There is a class of persons by whom Shakespeare is re- garded very much ...
... language , and the proper number of feet ; but in very few lines do they contain anything which can touch the heart , charm the imagination , or elevate the soul . There is a class of persons by whom Shakespeare is re- garded very much ...
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... language , the un- seemly revelry , when the ghost appears ; at first , but for a moment , Hamlét is awe - struck at the supernatural sight ; then all his affection breaks forth in an agonised appeal to the spectre , concluding with ...
... language , the un- seemly revelry , when the ghost appears ; at first , but for a moment , Hamlét is awe - struck at the supernatural sight ; then all his affection breaks forth in an agonised appeal to the spectre , concluding with ...
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... language to which no person of an unsuspicious and courteous disposi- tion could take exception ; an eccentric nature , like Hamlet's , might have found some ground for suspicion , both in the confidence with which the request to watch ...
... language to which no person of an unsuspicious and courteous disposi- tion could take exception ; an eccentric nature , like Hamlet's , might have found some ground for suspicion , both in the confidence with which the request to watch ...
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... language for the player's speech ; had the poetry been more refined , the sentiment might have been less forcible ; had the mind been more attracted , the heart might have been less moved . Hamlet contrasts , in language , which seems ...
... language for the player's speech ; had the poetry been more refined , the sentiment might have been less forcible ; had the mind been more attracted , the heart might have been less moved . Hamlet contrasts , in language , which seems ...
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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...