Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by Methodical Analysis of the Play ...J.W. Parker, 1848 - 103 pages |
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... Horatio's disbelief ; - Tush ! tush ! ' t will not appear ! - - and the silence , with which the scene opened , is again restored in the shivering feeling of Horatio sitting down , at such a time , and with the two eye - witnesses , to ...
... Horatio's disbelief ; - Tush ! tush ! ' t will not appear ! - - and the silence , with which the scene opened , is again restored in the shivering feeling of Horatio sitting down , at such a time , and with the two eye - witnesses , to ...
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... Horatio . Here among his equals in rank , and his inferiors in mind and knowledge , he speaks more than he does afterwards , when he appears in company with Hamlet . We see the truth of Hamlet's after description of him as one ' whose ...
... Horatio . Here among his equals in rank , and his inferiors in mind and knowledge , he speaks more than he does afterwards , when he appears in company with Hamlet . We see the truth of Hamlet's after description of him as one ' whose ...
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... Horatio already quoted , close the scene , with " the inobtrusive , yet fully adequate introduction of the main character , ' young Hamlet , ' upon whom is transferred all the interest excited for the acts and concerns of the king , his ...
... Horatio already quoted , close the scene , with " the inobtrusive , yet fully adequate introduction of the main character , ' young Hamlet , ' upon whom is transferred all the interest excited for the acts and concerns of the king , his ...
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... Horatio he expresses surprise , and the real pleasure of unexpectedly seeing his old college friend at Elsinore . Horatio's speeches in the first scene had told us that he was a Dane , and well acquainted with the politics of the ...
... Horatio he expresses surprise , and the real pleasure of unexpectedly seeing his old college friend at Elsinore . Horatio's speeches in the first scene had told us that he was a Dane , and well acquainted with the politics of the ...
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... Horatio had roused him : - My father - Methinks I see my father ! adding , in reply to the hurried question of Horatio , * whose mind is full of the fearful appearance he is about to tell of , mind's eye , Horatio . In my Here we see ...
... Horatio had roused him : - My father - Methinks I see my father ! adding , in reply to the hurried question of Horatio , * whose mind is full of the fearful appearance he is about to tell of , mind's eye , Horatio . In my Here we see ...
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Page 43 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 87 - There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come 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...
Page 30 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 91 - I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 70 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 27 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 45 - Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 73 - I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
Page 70 - 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 25 - When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one, — Enter Ghost.