Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: With Introductory Remarks; Explanatory, Grammatical, and Philological Notes |
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... thought , the king's desire ; but Hamlet , although the sport pleased him well , and that the King of England could not have done him a greater favour , made as though he had been much offended , threatening the king to be revenged ...
... thought , the king's desire ; but Hamlet , although the sport pleased him well , and that the King of England could not have done him a greater favour , made as though he had been much offended , threatening the king to be revenged ...
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... thought he could bombast out a blank verse with the best of them . Shakespeare issued his Venus and Adonis , a poem on a classical subject , and followed it up by his Lucrece , as proof that he was not so ignorant as he had been thought ...
... thought he could bombast out a blank verse with the best of them . Shakespeare issued his Venus and Adonis , a poem on a classical subject , and followed it up by his Lucrece , as proof that he was not so ignorant as he had been thought ...
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... thoughts . Their reality is in the reader's mind . The character of Hamlet stands quite by itself . It is not a character marked by strength of will or even of passion , but by refinement of thought and sentiment . Hamlet is as little ...
... thoughts . Their reality is in the reader's mind . The character of Hamlet stands quite by itself . It is not a character marked by strength of will or even of passion , but by refinement of thought and sentiment . Hamlet is as little ...
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... thought , and loses the power of action in the energy of resolve . ' * 3. HORATIO.- The friend of Prince Hamlet , an Italian form of the Latin Horatius , which may have been suggested by Shakespeare's memory of the Venusian bard ; for ...
... thought , and loses the power of action in the energy of resolve . ' * 3. HORATIO.- The friend of Prince Hamlet , an Italian form of the Latin Horatius , which may have been suggested by Shakespeare's memory of the Venusian bard ; for ...
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... thoughts , till he recovers the leading principle , and falls again into his former train . ' Sydney W. Walker suggests that Polonius , from his studied rhetorical speeches , probably received his name by corrup- tion from Apollonius ...
... thoughts , till he recovers the leading principle , and falls again into his former train . ' Sydney W. Walker suggests that Polonius , from his studied rhetorical speeches , probably received his name by corrup- tion from Apollonius ...
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Page 74 - Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. Pol. Not I, my lord. Ham. Then I would you were so honest a man. Pol. Honest, my lord! Ham. Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 130 - 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 : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 123 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty . enough, and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 134 - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, •casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver.
Page 75 - 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 88 - Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself...
Page 75 - O God, I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
Page 81 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 51 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly...
Page 64 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.