A Study of Hamlet, Volume 110Longmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... plays more carefully , and with a higher aim than mere verbal criticism ; they will find that he is himself his best ... play , so unsatisfactory to an English student of Shakespeare , that it would be scarcely possible to do justice to ...
... plays more carefully , and with a higher aim than mere verbal criticism ; they will find that he is himself his best ... play , so unsatisfactory to an English student of Shakespeare , that it would be scarcely possible to do justice to ...
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... plays which has been such a marked feature of the last year . As far as regards the Hamlet of the three great actors I have named , I should say that Salvini's inter- pretation was the most tender , Rossi's the most passionate , and ...
... plays which has been such a marked feature of the last year . As far as regards the Hamlet of the three great actors I have named , I should say that Salvini's inter- pretation was the most tender , Rossi's the most passionate , and ...
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... play , 41-42 . 42. Play scene , 42-44 ; its success , 44 . Guildenstern when summoning Hamlet to his mother , 44-45 . Next scene rarely represented , 45. Servility of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , 45 . King's soliloquy , 45. Hamlet's ...
... play , 41-42 . 42. Play scene , 42-44 ; its success , 44 . Guildenstern when summoning Hamlet to his mother , 44-45 . Next scene rarely represented , 45. Servility of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , 45 . King's soliloquy , 45. Hamlet's ...
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... play scene ... H. 39 9 , K. L. 25 55 M. ... ... ... ii . On the soliloquy , " Now might I do it pat " ... On the two pictures in the closet - scene Closet - scene from the Quarto 1603 and the Cambridge Shakespeare compared ... Scene ...
... play scene ... H. 39 9 , K. L. 25 55 M. ... ... ... ii . On the soliloquy , " Now might I do it pat " ... On the two pictures in the closet - scene Closet - scene from the Quarto 1603 and the Cambridge Shakespeare compared ... Scene ...
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... plays . Nearly all people have either read it , or seen it upon the stage , more than once . I will not say that it is the ... play ; if we do not all agree in considering it Shakespeare's greatest work , it certainly is his most human ...
... plays . Nearly all people have either read it , or seen it upon the stage , more than once . I will not say that it is the ... play ; if we do not all agree in considering it Shakespeare's greatest work , it certainly is his most human ...
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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...