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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... strong and piercing that it can see into the life of things . ' This is the prerogative of the poet , and therefore chiefly of Shakspeare , the chief of poets , that he first sees things as they essentially are , penetrating to their ...
... strong and piercing that it can see into the life of things . ' This is the prerogative of the poet , and therefore chiefly of Shakspeare , the chief of poets , that he first sees things as they essentially are , penetrating to their ...
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... strong passion of the mind , because there are periods in the history of literature in which it is chosen by the elegant and cultivated student- a Horace or a Gray - as the vehicle best fitted for the expression of tastes and sentiments ...
... strong passion of the mind , because there are periods in the history of literature in which it is chosen by the elegant and cultivated student- a Horace or a Gray - as the vehicle best fitted for the expression of tastes and sentiments ...
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... strong and comprehensive in all that is mere abstract thought , but this does not lead to corresponding energy of action , for the door to action is closed by circumstances : and then what was at first the external necessity of the ...
... strong and comprehensive in all that is mere abstract thought , but this does not lead to corresponding energy of action , for the door to action is closed by circumstances : and then what was at first the external necessity of the ...
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... strong con- firmation , if any can be needed , of the true insight of the great critic . On the entrance of the Ghost - immediately that there is something to be done - Hamlet's dreamy abstractedness changes into practical energy : he ...
... strong con- firmation , if any can be needed , of the true insight of the great critic . On the entrance of the Ghost - immediately that there is something to be done - Hamlet's dreamy abstractedness changes into practical energy : he ...
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... strong reason . And that he does keep it hereafter , though not without occasional aberrations , we must refer to that same aiding influence of religion which had already restrained him from suicide , * and which now prompts him to sum ...
... strong reason . And that he does keep it hereafter , though not without occasional aberrations , we must refer to that same aiding influence of religion which had already restrained him from suicide , * and which now prompts him to sum ...
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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.