Short Studies of Shakespeare's PlotsMacmillan, 1898 - 299 pages |
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... eyes , the causes of which are to the common soldiers as yet unknown . Horatio , however , as a man with better information , is able to furnish his comrades with a reason . The late king , by slaying Fortinbras of Norway in single ...
... eyes , the causes of which are to the common soldiers as yet unknown . Horatio , however , as a man with better information , is able to furnish his comrades with a reason . The late king , by slaying Fortinbras of Norway in single ...
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... eyes . " Shakespeare employs the interval till night by carry- ing his audience a little further into the plot . We remember that Laertes is to go to Paris . In saying farewell to his sister ( Act i . Scene 3 ) he , brother - like ...
... eyes . " Shakespeare employs the interval till night by carry- ing his audience a little further into the plot . We remember that Laertes is to go to Paris . In saying farewell to his sister ( Act i . Scene 3 ) he , brother - like ...
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... eyes ; For out o ' doors he went without their help , And , to the last , bended their light on me . " Such was the leave - taking in which Hamlet renounced not only his love for Ophelia , but his belief in woman . Polonius , to whom ...
... eyes ; For out o ' doors he went without their help , And , to the last , bended their light on me . " Such was the leave - taking in which Hamlet renounced not only his love for Ophelia , but his belief in woman . Polonius , to whom ...
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... eyes purging thick amber and plum - tree gum ; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit , together with weak hams : all of which , sir , though I most powerfully and potently believe , yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set ...
... eyes purging thick amber and plum - tree gum ; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit , together with weak hams : all of which , sir , though I most powerfully and potently believe , yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set ...
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... eyes will rivet to his face ; And , after , we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming . " There is , however , not the slightest necessity for elaborate comparison . conscience to the quick , and when 22 HAMLET.
... eyes will rivet to his face ; And , after , we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming . " There is , however , not the slightest necessity for elaborate comparison . conscience to the quick , and when 22 HAMLET.
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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.