Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: With Introductory Remarks; Explanatory, Grammatical, and Philological Notes |
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... players and playwrights of England for models , stimulation , and impulse . It is well known that bands of English players frequently performed in Germany , and that German play- wrights often took their plots from English dramatists ...
... players and playwrights of England for models , stimulation , and impulse . It is well known that bands of English players frequently performed in Germany , and that German play- wrights often took their plots from English dramatists ...
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... players , commended unto him by the Earl of Leices- ter , ' prior to his death in 1588. Sir Edward Dyer was made ambassador from England to Denmark in 1589 , and the regency established to hold rule during the minority of Christian IV ...
... players , commended unto him by the Earl of Leices- ter , ' prior to his death in 1588. Sir Edward Dyer was made ambassador from England to Denmark in 1589 , and the regency established to hold rule during the minority of Christian IV ...
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... players ' to which he subsequently attained , we might fancy that the title of his first tragedy and the name of his only son , Hamnet , were not altogether unrelated , especially when we notice that in his will the poet calls that ...
... players ' to which he subsequently attained , we might fancy that the title of his first tragedy and the name of his only son , Hamnet , were not altogether unrelated , especially when we notice that in his will the poet calls that ...
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... players , in his desire for the fiery action for which his nature was most unfit , there are many kinds of hints calling up an image of the Danish prince - Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne , by the Duke of Manchester , vol . i ...
... players , in his desire for the fiery action for which his nature was most unfit , there are many kinds of hints calling up an image of the Danish prince - Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne , by the Duke of Manchester , vol . i ...
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... players came to the court , and he got them to agree to perform a play before the king and queen , which might cause the former to betray his hidden guilt . The story of this play was of a murder done in Venice , by Lucianus , on his ...
... players came to the court , and he got them to agree to perform a play before the king and queen , which might cause the former to betray his hidden guilt . The story of this play was of a murder done in Venice , by Lucianus , on his ...
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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 86 - 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 79 - 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.