A Study of Hamlet, 110. köideLongmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... spirit , that what we instinctively admire we are also able to comprehend , This is the chief difference between real greatness and mere excellence , whether in poet , sculptor , painter , or actor . The great poet appeals not only to ...
... spirit , that what we instinctively admire we are also able to comprehend , This is the chief difference between real greatness and mere excellence , whether in poet , sculptor , painter , or actor . The great poet appeals not only to ...
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... spirit in which he would criticise his grocer's bill , examining all the items to see if they were correct , and insisting that all the articles should be inscribed in clear and legible type . There are many clever men now living who ...
... spirit in which he would criticise his grocer's bill , examining all the items to see if they were correct , and insisting that all the articles should be inscribed in clear and legible type . There are many clever men now living who ...
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... spirit , whose warning voice was soon to denounce the murderer . Hamlet has scarcely had time to condemn , in most eloquent language , the un- seemly revelry , when the ghost appears ; at first , but for a moment , Hamlét is awe ...
... spirit , whose warning voice was soon to denounce the murderer . Hamlet has scarcely had time to condemn , in most eloquent language , the un- seemly revelry , when the ghost appears ; at first , but for a moment , Hamlét is awe ...
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... spirit of his father speaks . The solemnity of this scene can never be surpassed : one seems to hear in the speeches of the ghost the grand diapason of some supernatural organ echoing from the depths of the unseen world . The rapt ...
... spirit of his father speaks . The solemnity of this scene can never be surpassed : one seems to hear in the speeches of the ghost the grand diapason of some supernatural organ echoing from the depths of the unseen world . The rapt ...
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... spirit had made , as he believed , the one motive of his life . The only other words he speaks , " Oh , my prophetic soul , my uncle , " may be regarded less as the expression of gratified vanity , or malice , at finding that he had at ...
... spirit had made , as he believed , the one motive of his life . The only other words he speaks , " Oh , my prophetic soul , my uncle , " may be regarded less as the expression of gratified vanity , or malice , at finding that he had at ...
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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...