Short Studies of Shakespeare's PlotsMacmillan, 1898 - 299 pages |
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... Polonius , an old counsellor of the king , and brother to the heroine Ophelia . His present wish is to go back to Paris in spite of his father's disinclination , and the king grants his request . Claudius then turns to Hamlet . That ...
... Polonius , an old counsellor of the king , and brother to the heroine Ophelia . His present wish is to go back to Paris in spite of his father's disinclination , and the king grants his request . Claudius then turns to Hamlet . That ...
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... Polonius household is that Hamlet's intentions are not serious . Laertes takes up the simple line of argument that the Crown Prince does not marry the Prime Minister's daughter , and he implores his sister to be circumspect in her ...
... Polonius household is that Hamlet's intentions are not serious . Laertes takes up the simple line of argument that the Crown Prince does not marry the Prime Minister's daughter , and he implores his sister to be circumspect in her ...
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... Polonius . Polonius is the true father of both Laertes and Ophelia . Greatness of mind is utterly absent from his system . He is fitted out with a stock of " old saws and modern instances , " which serve as contrasts to the imbecility ...
... Polonius . Polonius is the true father of both Laertes and Ophelia . Greatness of mind is utterly absent from his system . He is fitted out with a stock of " old saws and modern instances , " which serve as contrasts to the imbecility ...
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... Polonius takes the same view of Hamlet that Laertes holds . Like his son , he is incapable of understanding the depth of pure affection . He looks on Hamlet's vows as the stock - in- trade of the seducer , and no more . Nor is Ophelia ...
... Polonius takes the same view of Hamlet that Laertes holds . Like his son , he is incapable of understanding the depth of pure affection . He looks on Hamlet's vows as the stock - in- trade of the seducer , and no more . Nor is Ophelia ...
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... Polonius and his agent Reynaldo . In it he exhibits the cunning of the former and the utterly low expectation he has formed of his son's conduct from his own experiences . This done , we are brought back to the main plot by the entrance ...
... Polonius and his agent Reynaldo . In it he exhibits the cunning of the former and the utterly low expectation he has formed of his son's conduct from his own experiences . This done , we are brought back to the main plot by the entrance ...
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Page 72 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on: I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Page 282 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 77 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 69 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar ; I found it in his closet ; 'tis his will : Let but the Commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood...
Page 83 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 115 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 185 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 121 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 297 - gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is In virtue, than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 52 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these, and these extremities: And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous; And kill him in the shell.