Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by Methodical Analysis of the Play ...J.W. Parker, 1848 - 103 pages |
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... queens knows . And in Hamlet it appears , sometimes leading him to be overbearing or passionate , but oftener giving true dignity to his conduct , and depth and weight to a wisdom , which from any mouth would be the utter- ance of ...
... queens knows . And in Hamlet it appears , sometimes leading him to be overbearing or passionate , but oftener giving true dignity to his conduct , and depth and weight to a wisdom , which from any mouth would be the utter- ance of ...
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... queen , Hamlet takes no notice whatever . We must observe , however , that he had not attempted to refute them in his last passionate reply . For in truth they are sound enough in the abstract , they are what the best and most ...
... queen , Hamlet takes no notice whatever . We must observe , however , that he had not attempted to refute them in his last passionate reply . For in truth they are sound enough in the abstract , they are what the best and most ...
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... Queen's unaffected love to her child : only contrast the King's hollow For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg , It is most retrograde to our desire : And we beseech you , bend you to remain Here , in the cheer and comfort ...
... Queen's unaffected love to her child : only contrast the King's hollow For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg , It is most retrograde to our desire : And we beseech you , bend you to remain Here , in the cheer and comfort ...
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... Queen on a subsequent occasion . If this be not the end of the Ghost's appearance to Horatio and the soldiers , what is ? For it might have just as well appeared at first to Hamlet himself , as far as its share in the action of the ...
... Queen on a subsequent occasion . If this be not the end of the Ghost's appearance to Horatio and the soldiers , what is ? For it might have just as well appeared at first to Hamlet himself , as far as its share in the action of the ...
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... queen , unworthy as she has proved herself to be : and lastly that reliance upon the power of conscience which none have but the great and good : - But , howsoever thou pursu'st this act , Taint not thy mind , nor let thy soul contrive ...
... queen , unworthy as she has proved herself to be : and lastly that reliance upon the power of conscience which none have but the great and good : - But , howsoever thou pursu'st this act , Taint not thy mind , nor let thy soul contrive ...
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Page 43 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 87 - There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Page 30 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 91 - I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 70 - 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...
Page 27 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 45 - Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 73 - I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
Page 70 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 25 - When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one, — Enter Ghost.