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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... songs , of whatever kind , not only take for their subject , but originally spring out of , some vehement passion or struggle of men's hearts , which demands to be at once expressed and soothed to rest by the charm of music , and which ...
... songs , of whatever kind , not only take for their subject , but originally spring out of , some vehement passion or struggle of men's hearts , which demands to be at once expressed and soothed to rest by the charm of music , and which ...
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... scepticism is reckless , thus renders the Oracle : - Duas Gentes in utero gestas , Et duæ nationes ex te prodibunt . Gens præ gente erit potens , Magna ( gens ) erit serva parvæ . 8 NATIONAL SONGS AND ODES . of roused in the.
... scepticism is reckless , thus renders the Oracle : - Duas Gentes in utero gestas , Et duæ nationes ex te prodibunt . Gens præ gente erit potens , Magna ( gens ) erit serva parvæ . 8 NATIONAL SONGS AND ODES . of roused in the.
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... songs of Moses , and Deborah , and David , nor the lays of Rome and Greece , nor any of our own national songs and odes , of which Mr. Wordsworth's Thanksgiving Ode may be called the last , not least , for these all lie open to the ...
... songs of Moses , and Deborah , and David , nor the lays of Rome and Greece , nor any of our own national songs and odes , of which Mr. Wordsworth's Thanksgiving Ode may be called the last , not least , for these all lie open to the ...
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... songs , drinking - songs , * or any other of the various forms of lyrical poetry , and show that there is not any of these which will not be found an endeavour to infuse harmony into that mode of life to which it relates . But lyrical ...
... songs , drinking - songs , * or any other of the various forms of lyrical poetry , and show that there is not any of these which will not be found an endeavour to infuse harmony into that mode of life to which it relates . But lyrical ...
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... song , now become the chorus , but still retaining its original character , came in to soothe and to sustain the personages of the drama , by sharing and sympathizing in their sufferings , awakening and encouraging their hopes , and ...
... song , now become the chorus , but still retaining its original character , came in to soothe and to sustain the personages of the drama , by sharing and sympathizing in their sufferings , awakening and encouraging their hopes , and ...
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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.