A Study of Hamlet, 110. köideLongmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... words " omitted in the Cambridge Edition " do not mean " omitted only in that edition ; " the scene referred to , as is well known , being omitted in all the Quartos and Folios , except the Quarto 1603 . A STUDY OF HAMLET . PART I ...
... words " omitted in the Cambridge Edition " do not mean " omitted only in that edition ; " the scene referred to , as is well known , being omitted in all the Quartos and Folios , except the Quarto 1603 . A STUDY OF HAMLET . PART I ...
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... words of Hamlet- " The world is out of joint , oh cursed spite ! But I was never born to set it right . To this canker of cowardice , which blights the lives of so many in whom great sensibility is coupled with indolence , and in whom ...
... words of Hamlet- " The world is out of joint , oh cursed spite ! But I was never born to set it right . To this canker of cowardice , which blights the lives of so many in whom great sensibility is coupled with indolence , and in whom ...
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... words , though everyone cannot explain it . I do not deny that the most exquisitely finished style in poetry , or in any other art , is perfectly compatible with greatness ; but in work that is not only clever , but great , the style is ...
... words , though everyone cannot explain it . I do not deny that the most exquisitely finished style in poetry , or in any other art , is perfectly compatible with greatness ; but in work that is not only clever , but great , the style is ...
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... words that he speaks in reply to the King , who has addressed him as- " My son ' " " -a little more than kin and less than kind , words probably intended to be spoken half aside , show how impossible was any reconciliation between ...
... words that he speaks in reply to the King , who has addressed him as- " My son ' " " -a little more than kin and less than kind , words probably intended to be spoken half aside , show how impossible was any reconciliation between ...
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... words " I am glad to see you well , " are spoken half mechanically , with the instinctive courtesy of a well - bred prince ; it is not till he has recovered himself that he greets his friend with all the natural warmth of his heart ...
... words " I am glad to see you well , " are spoken half mechanically , with the instinctive courtesy of a well - bred prince ; it is not till he has recovered himself that he greets his friend with all the natural warmth of his heart ...
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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...