A Study of Hamlet, 110. köideLongmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... honour in which we hold him . I do not mean as regards scenery and dresses , but as regards the representation of the characters themselves ; one good actor cannot make an efficient cast ; and unless the minor characters in ...
... honour in which we hold him . I do not mean as regards scenery and dresses , but as regards the representation of the characters themselves ; one good actor cannot make an efficient cast ; and unless the minor characters in ...
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... honoured in literature , who have helped me with their advice and encouragement . To Mr. Frederic Broughton , who has given me most valuable and timely aid in the revision of the work , I owe especial thanks . I also may perhaps be ...
... honoured in literature , who have helped me with their advice and encouragement . To Mr. Frederic Broughton , who has given me most valuable and timely aid in the revision of the work , I owe especial thanks . I also may perhaps be ...
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... honour for this many a day ? Except in that awful interview which she has described to Polonius , during which , as you remember , Hamlet never spoke , Ophelia has not seen him for some time . Hamlet answers as if wishing to check any ...
... honour for this many a day ? Except in that awful interview which she has described to Polonius , during which , as you remember , Hamlet never spoke , Ophelia has not seen him for some time . Hamlet answers as if wishing to check any ...
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... honour and dignity ever treat their inferiors , conferring thereby a distinction on themselves which no homage from the recipients of their bounty could ever bestow . Hamlet stops the player who has spoken the speech , to ask him an ...
... honour and dignity ever treat their inferiors , conferring thereby a distinction on themselves which no homage from the recipients of their bounty could ever bestow . Hamlet stops the player who has spoken the speech , to ask him an ...
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... honour equally an outrage on that of the son -and in respect of the solemn charge imposed upon him by the supernatural visitation which he had received . It is probable , although he does not mention such intention , that Hamlet ...
... honour equally an outrage on that of the son -and in respect of the solemn charge imposed upon him by the supernatural visitation which he had received . It is probable , although he does not mention such intention , that Hamlet ...
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Page 45 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling.
Page 39 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? — To die, — to sleep...
Page 72 - Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 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 18 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this ! But two months dead I nay, not so much, not two : So excellent a king ; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 40 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 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 18 - O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! " Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter...
Page 25 - Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long...
Page 161 - At gaming, swearing ; or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't ; — • Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven ; And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes.
Page 119 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 175 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar...