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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... And after all , let us return to where we set out from , and assert that , above and beyond all his commentators , it is Shaks- peare himself that we must study ; and that , because he is the most human of writers , and opens more.
... And after all , let us return to where we set out from , and assert that , above and beyond all his commentators , it is Shaks- peare himself that we must study ; and that , because he is the most human of writers , and opens more.
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... assertion , that he had put forth his views of Hamlet , several years before Schlegel's Lectures were published . In depth and clear- ness of thought , and in masculine grasp of his subject , the superiority of Coleridge is ...
... assertion , that he had put forth his views of Hamlet , several years before Schlegel's Lectures were published . In depth and clear- ness of thought , and in masculine grasp of his subject , the superiority of Coleridge is ...
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... assertion that Hamlet ' delays action till action is of no use , and dies the victim of mere circum- stance and accident , ' I must hesitate to agree to his con- clusion . Nay , presumptuous as I feel it to be , to set myself against ...
... assertion that Hamlet ' delays action till action is of no use , and dies the victim of mere circum- stance and accident , ' I must hesitate to agree to his con- clusion . Nay , presumptuous as I feel it to be , to set myself against ...
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... asserted by persons taking this commonly received view , that the Play of Hamlet has rather an immoral tendency , encouraging a despondent and despairing submission to fate and circumstances : and , admitting the premises , I do not see ...
... asserted by persons taking this commonly received view , that the Play of Hamlet has rather an immoral tendency , encouraging a despondent and despairing submission to fate and circumstances : and , admitting the premises , I do not see ...
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... assertion that he can inform Marcellus of the cause of the military preparations in the country : - That can I , at least the whisper goes so : and in the somewhat similar So have I heard , and do in part believe it : And in his final ...
... assertion that he can inform Marcellus of the cause of the military preparations in the country : - That can I , at least the whisper goes so : and in the somewhat similar So have I heard , and do in part believe it : And in his final ...
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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.