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c . to Horatio , whose superiority of character indeed seems to demand it . As the
text now stands , Marcellus proposes to strike the Ghost with his partizan , and yet
afterwards is made to descant on the indecorum and impotence of such an ...
c . to Horatio , whose superiority of character indeed seems to demand it . As the
text now stands , Marcellus proposes to strike the Ghost with his partizan , and yet
afterwards is made to descant on the indecorum and impotence of such an ...
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The vulgar notion that a ghost could only be spoken to with propriety and effect
by a scholar , agrees very well with the character of Marcellus , a common officer ;
but it would have disgraced the Prince of Denmark to have supposed the spectre
...
The vulgar notion that a ghost could only be spoken to with propriety and effect
by a scholar , agrees very well with the character of Marcellus , a common officer ;
but it would have disgraced the Prince of Denmark to have supposed the spectre
...
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... -my blessing with you ; [ Laying his Hand on LAERTES ' Head . And these few
precepts in thy memory Look thou character . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Nor
any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar .
... -my blessing with you ; [ Laying his Hand on LAERTES ' Head . And these few
precepts in thy memory Look thou character . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Nor
any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar .
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The figurative meaning may be , Do not by promiscuous conversation make thy
mind insensible to the difference of characters . Johnson . each man's censure , ]
Censure is opinion . So , in King Henry VI , P. II : “ The king is old enough to give
...
The figurative meaning may be , Do not by promiscuous conversation make thy
mind insensible to the difference of characters . Johnson . each man's censure , ]
Censure is opinion . So , in King Henry VI , P. II : “ The king is old enough to give
...
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8 They clepe us , drunkards , ] And well our Englishmen might ; for in Queen
Elizabeth's time there was a Dane in London , of whom the following mention is
made in a collection of characters entitled , Looke to it , for Ile stab ye , no date : “
You ...
8 They clepe us , drunkards , ] And well our Englishmen might ; for in Queen
Elizabeth's time there was a Dane in London , of whom the following mention is
made in a collection of characters entitled , Looke to it , for Ile stab ye , no date : “
You ...
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Page 31 - 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 to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 25 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 207 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
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Page 142 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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Page 143 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them :' for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
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Page 138 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 15 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Publisher | C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2007 |
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