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... nature of his race , that has brought the character and the play so near the sympathies of the Teutonic world . Three things are requisite for the understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's work . The first is some knowledge of the ...
... nature of his race , that has brought the character and the play so near the sympathies of the Teutonic world . Three things are requisite for the understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's work . The first is some knowledge of the ...
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... nature That we with wisest sorrow think on him , Together with remembrance of ourselves . Therefore our sometime sister , now our queen , The imperial jointress of this warlike state , Have we , as ' twere with a defeated ° joy , With ...
... nature That we with wisest sorrow think on him , Together with remembrance of ourselves . Therefore our sometime sister , now our queen , The imperial jointress of this warlike state , Have we , as ' twere with a defeated ° joy , With ...
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... nature to eternity . Hamlet . Ay , madam , it is common . Queen . Why seems it so particular with thee ? Hamlet . Seems , madam ! nay , it is . " seems . " If it be , 70 75 I know not 80 " Tis not alone my inky cloak , good SCENE 2 ] 13 ...
... nature to eternity . Hamlet . Ay , madam , it is common . Queen . Why seems it so particular with thee ? Hamlet . Seems , madam ! nay , it is . " seems . " If it be , 70 75 I know not 80 " Tis not alone my inky cloak , good SCENE 2 ] 13 ...
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... nature , Hamlet , 85 To give these mourning duties to your father . But , you must know , your father lost a father ; That father lost , ° lost his , and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow ...
... nature , Hamlet , 85 To give these mourning duties to your father . But , you must know , your father lost a father ; That father lost , ° lost his , and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow ...
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... nature , To reason most absurd ; whose common theme Is death of fathers , and who still hath cried , From the first corse till he ° that died to - day , " This must be so . " We pray you , throw to earth This unprevailing woe , and ...
... nature , To reason most absurd ; whose common theme Is death of fathers , and who still hath cried , From the first corse till he ° that died to - day , " This must be so . " We pray you , throw to earth This unprevailing woe , and ...
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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.