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" I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare ... - Page 114
by William Shakespeare - 1800
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her ? King. O, he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him....
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature ..., Volumes 5-6

Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...no roan should have spoken to a chaste, fond-hearted maiden. Yet be loved her — " forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." His school-fellows, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, deserved their penalty : they would have played...
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The clandestine marriage and The sisters

Ellen Wallace - 1840 - 954 pages
...Mapleton, " of whom Hamlet could so speak, after her death, — ' I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum' ? " " She was extremely beautiful," said Miss Denham ; " and whatever her faults had been, in...
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De Clifford: Or, The Constant Man, Volume 2

Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 298 pages
...raved, and my raving was all of Bertha. " 1 loved her," I cried (so it was reported). " Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. She is gone, but I shall marry her in heaven." This was repeated more than once, and Mrs. Margaret,...
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The King's college literary and scientific magazine [afterw.] King's college ...

London univ, King's coll - 1842 - 686 pages
...burst into that agony of grief which prompted the energetic cry — " I loved Ophelia ! forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Again, observe how, immediately after Ophelia's death, he hastes to his revenge; not all the...
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The King's College Magazine, Volume 2

English literature - 1842 - 514 pages
...into that agony of grief which prompted the energetic cry — * " I loved Ophelia ! forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Again, observe how, immediately after Ophelia's death, he hastes to his revenge ; not all the...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I lov'd Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her? King. O ! he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him....
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An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two Books

George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 574 pages
...Hamlet says to Laertes, who had been boasting of his fraternal love : / loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum.12 These lines serve to illustrate the excessive fervour of the affection. The following show the...
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An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamlet: Embracing a View of Hamlet's Character ...

Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 pages
...and repelling this charge, Hamlet tells Laertes, with great energy, I lov'd Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. Throughout this remarkable scene, though the reflections, interwoven as they are with the spirit...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her '. King. O, he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear...
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