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... matter of popular or general remark . Yet it is far from probable that such a drama was the work of Shakespeare ; it is too early . He may have begun to recast plays , but probably not to produce them unassisted . But it appears that ...
... matter of popular or general remark . Yet it is far from probable that such a drama was the work of Shakespeare ; it is too early . He may have begun to recast plays , but probably not to produce them unassisted . But it appears that ...
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... matter ; yes , by heaven ! O most pernicious woman ! O villain , villain , smiling , damned villain ! My tables , meet it is I set it down , That one may smile , and smile , and be a villain ; 50 95 100 105 At least I'm sure it may be ...
... matter ; yes , by heaven ! O most pernicious woman ! O villain , villain , smiling , damned villain ! My tables , meet it is I set it down , That one may smile , and smile , and be a villain ; 50 95 100 105 At least I'm sure it may be ...
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... matter ? Ophelia . Alas , my lord . I have been so affrighted ! Polonius . With what , i ' the name of Heaven ? Ophelia . My lord , as I was sewing in my closet , ° Lord Hamlet , with his doublet all unbrac'd ° ; No hat upon his head ...
... matter ? Ophelia . Alas , my lord . I have been so affrighted ! Polonius . With what , i ' the name of Heaven ? Ophelia . My lord , as I was sewing in my closet , ° Lord Hamlet , with his doublet all unbrac'd ° ; No hat upon his head ...
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... matter , with less art . Polonius . Madam , I swear I use no art at all . That he is mad , ' tis true ; ' tis true ' tis pity , And pity ' tis ' tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it , for I will use no art . Mad let us grant ...
... matter , with less art . Polonius . Madam , I swear I use no art at all . That he is mad , ' tis true ; ' tis true ' tis pity , And pity ' tis ' tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it , for I will use no art . Mad let us grant ...
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... matter , my lord ? Hamlet . Between who ° ? 195 Polonius . I mean , the matter that you read , my lord . Hamlet . Slanders , sir ; for the satirical rogue 58 [ ACT IL HAMLET.
... matter , my lord ? Hamlet . Between who ° ? 195 Polonius . I mean , the matter that you read , my lord . Hamlet . Slanders , sir ; for the satirical rogue 58 [ ACT IL HAMLET.
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answer apparently arras Bernardo blood Castle Enter comes court Dane daughter dead dear death Denmark dost doth drink earth effect Elsinore England Enter HAMLET Enter KING Exeunt Exit Exit GHOST eyes Farewell father fear feeling follow Fortinbras friends gentleman Gertrude Ghost give grief Hamlet mean hast hath hear heart heaven Hecuba hold Horatio in't is't Jephthah Julius Caesar King of Denmark King's Laertes Laertes's leave look Lord Hamlet majesty manner Marcellus marry mind mother murder nature night noble Norway o'er Ophelia Osric play Poems poison'd Polonius Polonius's pray Priam probably Pyrrhus Queen question rapiers reason revenge Reynaldo Rosencrantz and Guildenstern SCENE Second Clown seems sense Shakespeare's Sings soul speak speech spirit sweet sword tell thee There's thing thou thought VOLTIMAND wish Wittenberg Woo't words
Popular passages
Page 87 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some" quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 179 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me ! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 63 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 105 - 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 16 - I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 85 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 34 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood...
Page 102 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 63 - What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Page 107 - He will come straight. Look you lay home to him. Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, And that your Grace hath screen'd and stood between Much heat and him.