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... charácter . 18 Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar : Give thy ... character is to engrave or imprint . 14 Vulgar is here used in its old sense of common . The friends thou hast , and ...
... charácter . 18 Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar : Give thy ... character is to engrave or imprint . 14 Vulgar is here used in its old sense of common . The friends thou hast , and ...
Page 536
... sully our title by likening us to swine . The character here ascribed to the Danes appears to have had a basis of fact . From our achievements , though perform'd at height , The 536 ACT L HAMLET , The better to beguile. This is for all,...
... sully our title by likening us to swine . The character here ascribed to the Danes appears to have had a basis of fact . From our achievements , though perform'd at height , The 536 ACT L HAMLET , The better to beguile. This is for all,...
Page 537
... character or fortune be- ing determined by the star that was in the ascendant on the day of his birth . Observe the change of the subject here from these men to their virtues . 9 As already stated , this passage is not in the folio ...
... character or fortune be- ing determined by the star that was in the ascendant on the day of his birth . Observe the change of the subject here from these men to their virtues . 9 As already stated , this passage is not in the folio ...
Page 558
... characters were favourites on the stage . The melancholy Jaques in As You Like It is an instance . 29 Hamlet is not pleased with the behaviour of the clowns , and is dispar aging them by ironical praise . " Tickled o ' the sere " is ...
... characters were favourites on the stage . The melancholy Jaques in As You Like It is an instance . 29 Hamlet is not pleased with the behaviour of the clowns , and is dispar aging them by ironical praise . " Tickled o ' the sere " is ...
Page 569
... character of a Franklin : " Lastly , to end him , he cares not when his end comes ; he needs not feare his audit , for his quietus is in heaven . " - Bodkin was the ancient term for a small dagger . 8 So the folio ; the quartos , " who ...
... character of a Franklin : " Lastly , to end him , he cares not when his end comes ; he needs not feare his audit , for his quietus is in heaven . " - Bodkin was the ancient term for a small dagger . 8 So the folio ; the quartos , " who ...
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Page 573 - ... 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.
Page 557 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 600 - 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 574 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 585 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will : My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, 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 590 - O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will. Queen. O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Page 542 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 548 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 589 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 588 - Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage -vows As false as dicers...