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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... he wrote ; and the cotemporary literature which shows the thoughts and feelings , the habits and manners , of the age in which he lived , and how far these COLERIDGE OUR BEST GUIDE . 5 modified , and how 4 IDEAS AND FACTS .
... he wrote ; and the cotemporary literature which shows the thoughts and feelings , the habits and manners , of the age in which he lived , and how far these COLERIDGE OUR BEST GUIDE . 5 modified , and how 4 IDEAS AND FACTS .
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... habits and actions which impress him with constant respect for their dignity and greatness , and finally , in manhood by the deliberate study of the father's whole character , and the deliberate undertaking to re - produce it in himself ...
... habits and actions which impress him with constant respect for their dignity and greatness , and finally , in manhood by the deliberate study of the father's whole character , and the deliberate undertaking to re - produce it in himself ...
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... habit of his soul , he " becomes the creature of mere medi- tation , and loses his natural power of action , " and we see in him ( except on emergencies which we will consider as they arise ) " a great , an almost enormous intellectual ...
... habit of his soul , he " becomes the creature of mere medi- tation , and loses his natural power of action , " and we see in him ( except on emergencies which we will consider as they arise ) " a great , an almost enormous intellectual ...
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... habit of brooding over the world within him , coupled with a prodigality of beautiful words . " Of the king's repetition of , and enlargement upon , the previous arguments of the queen , Hamlet takes no notice whatever . We must observe ...
... habit of brooding over the world within him , coupled with a prodigality of beautiful words . " Of the king's repetition of , and enlargement upon , the previous arguments of the queen , Hamlet takes no notice whatever . We must observe ...
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... habits and customs . The habitual sobriety and steadiness of his character are recognized , in Hamlet's quick protest against the possibility of a truant disposition having brought his friend to Elsinore , and in the playful threat ' We ...
... habits and customs . The habitual sobriety and steadiness of his character are recognized , in Hamlet's quick protest against the possibility of a truant disposition having brought his friend to Elsinore , and in the playful threat ' We ...
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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.