Short Studies of Shakespeare's PlotsMacmillan, 1898 - 299 pages |
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... murder , and the matter is being thus satisfactorily explained when the ghost again makes its appearance . Again Horatio essays to speak with it , and now he offers the threefold alternative which the supersti- tion of the day regarded ...
... murder , and the matter is being thus satisfactorily explained when the ghost again makes its appearance . Again Horatio essays to speak with it , and now he offers the threefold alternative which the supersti- tion of the day regarded ...
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... murder . " Hamlet's horror - stricken question “ Murder ? ” conclusively shows that the idea of murder is new to him . The agony of his soul , which even under the thought of his mother's hasty marriage had carried him to the verge of ...
... murder . " Hamlet's horror - stricken question “ Murder ? ” conclusively shows that the idea of murder is new to him . The agony of his soul , which even under the thought of his mother's hasty marriage had carried him to the verge of ...
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... murder to be revenged . The dreamy and sensitive youth is called to become the man of action . He hails the change . " Haste me to know it , that I , with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love , may sweep to my revenge ...
... murder to be revenged . The dreamy and sensitive youth is called to become the man of action . He hails the change . " Haste me to know it , that I , with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love , may sweep to my revenge ...
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... murdered by his uncle . The family life which he has accepted as ideal is a sham . Nay , too , he is on a sudden called to leave his studies and to take an active part in affairs of the most delicate complexity . The duty of avenging ...
... murdered by his uncle . The family life which he has accepted as ideal is a sham . Nay , too , he is on a sudden called to leave his studies and to take an active part in affairs of the most delicate complexity . The duty of avenging ...
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... murder , just as in France they test the guilt of accused criminals by their behaviour when confronted with the ... murder a man on the unsupported evidence of a ghost was absurd , and moreover it would be foolish , for what likelihood ...
... murder , just as in France they test the guilt of accused criminals by their behaviour when confronted with the ... murder a man on the unsupported evidence of a ghost was absurd , and moreover it would be foolish , for what likelihood ...
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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.