Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkClarendon Press, 1874 - 231 pages |
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... quote from the reprint of the edition of 1616 as it is given in Sir Egerton Brydges ' Archaica , vol . i . ' It is a common practice now - a - days , amongst a sort of shifting companions , that run through every art and thrive by none ...
... quote from the reprint of the edition of 1616 as it is given in Sir Egerton Brydges ' Archaica , vol . i . ' It is a common practice now - a - days , amongst a sort of shifting companions , that run through every art and thrive by none ...
Page 125
... quotes from Heywood's Life of Merlin : · ' Merlin well vers'd in many a hidden spell , His countries omen did long since foretell . ' Compare ominous , ' ii . 2. 439 . 124. demonstrated . This word is used by Shakespeare with the accent ...
... quotes from Heywood's Life of Merlin : · ' Merlin well vers'd in many a hidden spell , His countries omen did long since foretell . ' Compare ominous , ' ii . 2. 439 . 124. demonstrated . This word is used by Shakespeare with the accent ...
Page 129
... quotes from W. Rowley's Search for Money , 1602 , p . 5 , ed . Percy Society : ' I would he were not so neere to us in kindred , then sure he would be neerer in kindnesse . ' 67. Farmer supposes that a quibble is intended between ' sun ...
... quotes from W. Rowley's Search for Money , 1602 , p . 5 , ed . Percy Society : ' I would he were not so neere to us in kindred , then sure he would be neerer in kindnesse . ' 67. Farmer supposes that a quibble is intended between ' sun ...
Page 131
... quotes from Lyly's Euphues , p . 38 : I could be content to resolve myself into teares , to rid thee of trouble . ' 132. canon , law enforced by religious sanctions . Compare Timon of Athens , iv . 3. 60 : ' Religious canons , civil ...
... quotes from Lyly's Euphues , p . 38 : I could be content to resolve myself into teares , to rid thee of trouble . ' 132. canon , law enforced by religious sanctions . Compare Timon of Athens , iv . 3. 60 : ' Religious canons , civil ...
Page 132
... quotes Hayward's Life and Raigne of King Henrie the Fourth , 1599 , to the effect that Richard II was obscurely interred , without the charge of a dinner for celebrating the funeral . ' 6 182. dearest foe . Dear ' is used of whatever ...
... quotes Hayward's Life and Raigne of King Henrie the Fourth , 1599 , to the effect that Richard II was obscurely interred , without the charge of a dinner for celebrating the funeral . ' 6 182. dearest foe . Dear ' is used of whatever ...
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Page 48 - What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 65 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. Why ! do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 49 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 36 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 103 - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 55 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 49 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 230 - Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 68 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 40 - 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.