Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkMacmillan, 1911 - 323 pages |
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... perhaps wrote at first hand from the Hystorie , can hardly have taken shape before the spring or summer of 1602. In July of this year James Roberts secured an entry in the Stationers ' Register for " A booke called the Revenge of HAM ...
... perhaps wrote at first hand from the Hystorie , can hardly have taken shape before the spring or summer of 1602. In July of this year James Roberts secured an entry in the Stationers ' Register for " A booke called the Revenge of HAM ...
Page xiii
... surreptitiously , perhaps by copying and memorizing the parts as heard from the lips of the actors in the playhouse . The lines often seem made up from catch- words , the metre is broken , and there are INTRODUCTION xiii.
... surreptitiously , perhaps by copying and memorizing the parts as heard from the lips of the actors in the playhouse . The lines often seem made up from catch- words , the metre is broken , and there are INTRODUCTION xiii.
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... perhaps to the majority of students and readers the most inspiring . Those who comprehend it least , or are most in doubt as to its essential meanings , are often most completely under its spell . It carries the reader and the spectator ...
... perhaps to the majority of students and readers the most inspiring . Those who comprehend it least , or are most in doubt as to its essential meanings , are often most completely under its spell . It carries the reader and the spectator ...
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... Perhaps he loves you now , And now no soil or cautel ° doth besmirch The virtue of his will ° : but you must fear , His greatness weigh'd , his will is not his own ; For he himself is subject to his birth . He may not , as unvalued ...
... Perhaps he loves you now , And now no soil or cautel ° doth besmirch The virtue of his will ° : but you must fear , His greatness weigh'd , his will is not his own ; For he himself is subject to his birth . He may not , as unvalued ...
Page 75
... he but blench , ° 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 610 615 Out of my weakness , and my melancholy , As SCENE 2 ] 75 HAMLET.
... he but blench , ° 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 610 615 Out of my weakness , and my melancholy , As SCENE 2 ] 75 HAMLET.
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answer apparently arras Bernardo blood Castle Enter comes court Dane dead dear death Denmark dost doth drink earth Edited effect Elsinore England English Enter HAMLET Exeunt Exit eyes Farewell father fear feeling follow Fortinbras friends gentleman Gertrude Ghost give grief Hamlet mean hast hath Hawthorne's hear heart heaven Hecuba High School hold Horatio Iliad in't is't Jephthah Julius Cæsar King of Denmark King's Laertes Laertes's leave look Lord Hamlet majesty manner Marcellus marry mother murder nature night noble Norway o'er Ophelia Osric Palgrave's Golden Treasury play Poems poison'd Polonius Polonius's pray probably Pyrrhus Quarto question revenge Reynaldo Rosencrantz and Guildenstern SCENE Scott's Second Clown seems sense Shakespeare's Sings soul speak speech spirit sweet sword tell thee There's thing thou thought VOLTIMAND wish Wittenberg Woo't words
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Page 87 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 63 - 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 85 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 34 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood...
Page 16 - I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 150 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Page 80 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 127 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 102 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 31 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!