An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamlet: Embracing a View of Hamlet's Character--his Feigned Or Real Madness--conduct to Ophelia--the Soliloquy on Suicide, &c., &c., Interspersed with Reflections on the Writings and Genius of ShakespeareCunningham and Mortimer, 1843 - 79 страници |
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... period created . ( 2 ) The original story on which the tragedy of Hamlet is founded , is to be met with in the writings of Saxo Grammaticus , the Danish historian , who flourished towards the end of the twelfth century ; but about 1564 ...
... period created . ( 2 ) The original story on which the tragedy of Hamlet is founded , is to be met with in the writings of Saxo Grammaticus , the Danish historian , who flourished towards the end of the twelfth century ; but about 1564 ...
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... period of Shakspere's life , when his heart was ill at ease , and ill content with the world , or his own conscience . The memory of hours mispent , the pang of affection misplaced or unrequited , the experience of man's worser nature ...
... period of Shakspere's life , when his heart was ill at ease , and ill content with the world , or his own conscience . The memory of hours mispent , the pang of affection misplaced or unrequited , the experience of man's worser nature ...
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... period of life , wherein men yielding by turns to the torments of love and ambition , of fear and of hope , to the sweet illusions of happiness and the realities of suffering , consumed with passions for ever reviving , often repressed ...
... period of life , wherein men yielding by turns to the torments of love and ambition , of fear and of hope , to the sweet illusions of happiness and the realities of suffering , consumed with passions for ever reviving , often repressed ...
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... period in which Shakspere lived offered ample opportunity of his witnessing the gross and fulsome adulation heaped upon the virtues of the maiden queen , whose reign , now that the romance which so long obscurred the page of history ...
... period in which Shakspere lived offered ample opportunity of his witnessing the gross and fulsome adulation heaped upon the virtues of the maiden queen , whose reign , now that the romance which so long obscurred the page of history ...
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... period was in a very low condition . An author of some note , when descanting upon this scene , very justly observes , that the plays of Shakspere , by their own power , must have given a different turn to acting , and almost new ...
... period was in a very low condition . An author of some note , when descanting upon this scene , very justly observes , that the plays of Shakspere , by their own power , must have given a different turn to acting , and almost new ...
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alluding amidst amongst ancient ancient Greece bard beauty breast character of Hamlet choly circumstances Claudius considered contemplating courtier dead deep deepest deeply delineation Denmark disposition dramas of Shakspere elegant English hearts excited father father's death feelings feigned insanity follies genius of Shakspere ghost giving grave Hamlet's character Henry Henry VI Horatio human heart imagination immortal poet influence intellectual interest interview justly observed King King of Denmark Laertes late look Macbeth madness Malone mankind Mark Antony meditation melan melancholy mind mock play moral mother mournful murder nature noble NOTE notwithstanding Ophelia passions perhaps philosophic Plato poet's Polonius possessed powers present day prevails Prince profound Queen reflections remarkable remembrance rendered retributive justice revenge Robert Burns Rosencrantz and Guildenstern rude sadness says scene sentiments Shak Shakspere's soliloquy soul spere spirit suicide thee thou thought tion unhappy usurper Vortigern whilst Winter's Tale writer youth
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Страница 21 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these...
Страница 38 - 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. 'Sblood, 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.
Страница 32 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Страница 9 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Страница 73 - ild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Страница 27 - 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.
Страница 35 - And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 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...
Страница 22 - 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...
Страница 65 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Страница 47 - 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.