Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 415 pages |
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... Hamlet , feeing his uncle , is in fome doubt with himself whe- ther or no he then fhall kill him ; and adds , " He took my father grofly , full of bread , " With all his crimes broad blown , and flush as " May ; " And " And bow his ...
... Hamlet , feeing his uncle , is in fome doubt with himself whe- ther or no he then fhall kill him ; and adds , " He took my father grofly , full of bread , " With all his crimes broad blown , and flush as " May ; " And " And bow his ...
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... Hamlet , Act III . " From thefe lines , and fome others , it ap- pears that Shakespeare had drawn the first Sketch of this play without his Ghoft ; and " when he had added that machinery , he forgot " to strike out thefe lines : For the ...
... Hamlet , Act III . " From thefe lines , and fome others , it ap- pears that Shakespeare had drawn the first Sketch of this play without his Ghoft ; and " when he had added that machinery , he forgot " to strike out thefe lines : For the ...
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... Hamlet fay , # " He took my Father grofly , full of bread . " And we are to obferve , that it is a common fay- ing of the Romish priests to their people , If " you won't faft here , you must fast in fire . " Mr.T. Let us now fee the ...
... Hamlet fay , # " He took my Father grofly , full of bread . " And we are to obferve , that it is a common fay- ing of the Romish priests to their people , If " you won't faft here , you must fast in fire . " Mr.T. Let us now fee the ...
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... Hamlet , A & t IV . With others of the like nature . 11 Homer knew the whole art of lying , and has taught other poets the way . Δεδίδαχε δὲ μάλισα Ομηρον καὶ τὰς ἄλλες ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ . Ariftot . περὶ ποιητ . κεφ . κδ . Horace has ...
... Hamlet , A & t IV . With others of the like nature . 11 Homer knew the whole art of lying , and has taught other poets the way . Δεδίδαχε δὲ μάλισα Ομηρον καὶ τὰς ἄλλες ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ . Ariftot . περὶ ποιητ . κεφ . κδ . Horace has ...
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... Hamlet , A & III . he feems to have had in his mind what Donatus in his life of Terence cites from Cicero , Comoedia eft imitatio vitae , Speculum confuetudinis , imago veritatis . 2 For ' tis probable fometimes that things fhould ...
... Hamlet , A & III . he feems to have had in his mind what Donatus in his life of Terence cites from Cicero , Comoedia eft imitatio vitae , Speculum confuetudinis , imago veritatis . 2 For ' tis probable fometimes that things fhould ...
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Page 266 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 66 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 120 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page xlvi - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 134 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 223 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 142 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page xxxix - ... a rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, More to the part sinister, from me drawn ; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 229 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page lvi - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.