Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkMacmillan, 1911 - 323 pages |
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Page 14
... sweet and commendable in your nature , Hamlet , To give these mourning duties to your father . But , you must know , your father lost a father ; 85 That father lost , ° lost his , and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some ...
... sweet and commendable in your nature , Hamlet , To give these mourning duties to your father . But , you must know , your father lost a father ; 85 That father lost , ° lost his , and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some ...
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... sweet , not lasting , The perfume and suppliance of a minute ° ; No more . Ophelia . No more but so ? Laertes . Think it no more ; For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk , but , as this temple waxes , The inward ...
... sweet , not lasting , The perfume and suppliance of a minute ° ; No more . Ophelia . No more but so ? Laertes . Think it no more ; For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk , but , as this temple waxes , The inward ...
Page 52
... sweet Queen , that he hath found The head and source of all your son's distemper . Queen . I doubt it is no other but the main , - His father's death , and our o'erhasty marriage . King . Well , we shall sift him . - 55 Reënter POLONIUS ...
... sweet Queen , that he hath found The head and source of all your son's distemper . Queen . I doubt it is no other but the main , - His father's death , and our o'erhasty marriage . King . Well , we shall sift him . - 55 Reënter POLONIUS ...
Page 69
... sweet , and by very much more handsome than fine . One speech in it I chiefly loved : ' twas Æneas ' tale to Dido ; and thereabout ° of it especially , where he speaks of Priam's slaughter . If it live in your memory , begin at this ...
... sweet , and by very much more handsome than fine . One speech in it I chiefly loved : ' twas Æneas ' tale to Dido ; and thereabout ° of it especially , where he speaks of Priam's slaughter . If it live in your memory , begin at this ...
Page 78
... Sweet Gertrude , leave us too ; For we have closely ° sent for Hamlet hither , That he , as ' twere by accident , may here Affront Ophelia . Her father and myself , lawful espials , O Will so bestow ourselves that , seeing , unseen , We ...
... Sweet Gertrude , leave us too ; For we have closely ° sent for Hamlet hither , That he , as ' twere by accident , may here Affront Ophelia . Her father and myself , lawful espials , O Will so bestow ourselves that , seeing , unseen , We ...
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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
Popular passages
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!