The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello |
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Page 153
... can only be understood on this principle :He feigns madness for political
purposes , while the poet means to represent his understanding as really ( and
unconsciously to himself ) unhinged by the cruel circumstances in which he is
placed .
... can only be understood on this principle :He feigns madness for political
purposes , while the poet means to represent his understanding as really ( and
unconsciously to himself ) unhinged by the cruel circumstances in which he is
placed .
Page 155
At least it does not appear to have been the poet's intention that the air and
manner of Hamlet in this scene should be perfectly grave and serious ; nor is
there any thing in the dialogue to justify the grave and tragic tone with which it is ...
At least it does not appear to have been the poet's intention that the air and
manner of Hamlet in this scene should be perfectly grave and serious ; nor is
there any thing in the dialogue to justify the grave and tragic tone with which it is ...
Page 201
But suspense was the poet's object ; and never was it more effectually created
than in the present instance . Six times has the royal semblance appeared , but
till now has been withheld from speaking . For this event we have waited with ...
But suspense was the poet's object ; and never was it more effectually created
than in the present instance . Six times has the royal semblance appeared , but
till now has been withheld from speaking . For this event we have waited with ...
Page 229
The poet has probably put into the mouth of Hamlet his own genuine opinion of
this speech , and the play from whence it was derived ; whether it was one of his
own juvenile performances , or one of those inform dramas which he had ...
The poet has probably put into the mouth of Hamlet his own genuine opinion of
this speech , and the play from whence it was derived ; whether it was one of his
own juvenile performances , or one of those inform dramas which he had ...
Page 368
17 Sir W. Davenant uses the same expression in his Just Italian , 1630 :• The
curld and silken nobles of the town . ' Again : -- • Such as the curled youth of Italy .
' It was the fashion of the poet's time for lusty gallants to wear a curled bush of ...
17 Sir W. Davenant uses the same expression in his Just Italian , 1630 :• The
curld and silken nobles of the town . ' Again : -- • Such as the curled youth of Italy .
' It was the fashion of the poet's time for lusty gallants to wear a curled bush of ...
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Page 254 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 170 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman...
Page 330 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 368 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate.
Page 230 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 32 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 50 - And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 366 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my...
Page 439 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 238 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello Volume 10 of The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard |
| Publisher | C. Whittingham, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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