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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... mere force and energy of will , but his will must act according to law also . In this action and re - action of the persons and events on each other , and the progress of the drama by the gradual subjection of the latter to the former ...
... mere force and energy of will , but his will must act according to law also . In this action and re - action of the persons and events on each other , and the progress of the drama by the gradual subjection of the latter to the former ...
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... mere meditation , and loses his natural power of action . Now one of Shakspeare's modes of creating characters is , to conceive any one intellectual or moral faculty in morbid excess , and then to place himself , Shakspeare , thus ...
... mere meditation , and loses his natural power of action . Now one of Shakspeare's modes of creating characters is , to conceive any one intellectual or moral faculty in morbid excess , and then to place himself , Shakspeare , thus ...
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... seen a celebrated waterfall without feeling something akin to disappointment : it is only subsequently that the image comes back full into the mind , and brings with it a 16 HAMLET NOT A MERE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE . train.
... seen a celebrated waterfall without feeling something akin to disappointment : it is only subsequently that the image comes back full into the mind , and brings with it a 16 HAMLET NOT A MERE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE . train.
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... MERE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE . train of grand or beautiful associations . Hamlet feels this ; his senses are in a state of trance , and he looks upon external things as hieroglyphics . His soliloquy— O ! that this too too solid flesh ...
... MERE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE . train of grand or beautiful associations . Hamlet feels this ; his senses are in a state of trance , and he looks upon external things as hieroglyphics . His soliloquy— O ! that this too too solid flesh ...
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... mere theory of the moral and in- tellectual nature of man : and consequently we must look for , and discuss the hidden motives of his conduct , just as we should those of an actual man . Hamlet then is the only son of the King of ...
... mere theory of the moral and in- tellectual nature of man : and consequently we must look for , and discuss the hidden motives of his conduct , just as we should those of an actual man . Hamlet then is the only son of the King of ...
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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.