Remarks on the Moral Influence of Shakspeare's Plays: With Illustrations from HamletLongman, Brown, and Company, 1850 - 48 pages |
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... soliloquy ; who can say that the suicidal purpose has never been turned aside by the awful soliloquy of Hamlet ? In the conduct of the story , Hamlet is strikingly contrasted with Macbeth . In the last , there is a continual urgency and ...
... soliloquy ; who can say that the suicidal purpose has never been turned aside by the awful soliloquy of Hamlet ? In the conduct of the story , Hamlet is strikingly contrasted with Macbeth . In the last , there is a continual urgency and ...
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... soliloquies , as illustrations of Shakspeare's moral wisdom and eloquence , I close these Remarks . In the first soliloquy , the Prince , who has just retired from his heart - sickening conference with his guilty mother , and her ...
... soliloquies , as illustrations of Shakspeare's moral wisdom and eloquence , I close these Remarks . In the first soliloquy , the Prince , who has just retired from his heart - sickening conference with his guilty mother , and her ...
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... soliloquy , Hamlet , sick of life , in the distraction of his spirit , speaks as one who , hovering over the dread abyss of self - destruction , is restrained and res- cued by the awful apprehension of a future state . It is the voice ...
... soliloquy , Hamlet , sick of life , in the distraction of his spirit , speaks as one who , hovering over the dread abyss of self - destruction , is restrained and res- cued by the awful apprehension of a future state . It is the voice ...
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... , perhaps , to that clause in the Church Catechism , which bids us " to keep our hands from picking and stealing . " " Try what repentance can , " & c . Act III . , Scene 4 . This is strongly resembled in Milton's fine soliloquy of Satan ...
... , perhaps , to that clause in the Church Catechism , which bids us " to keep our hands from picking and stealing . " " Try what repentance can , " & c . Act III . , Scene 4 . This is strongly resembled in Milton's fine soliloquy of Satan ...
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... soliloquy . " To know a man well , were to know himself . " Act V. , Scene 2 . The meaning is obscure , and may be thus variously interpreted : 1. It were to know him , as he knows himself . 2. It were to know , or to excel , himself ...
... soliloquy . " To know a man well , were to know himself . " Act V. , Scene 2 . The meaning is obscure , and may be thus variously interpreted : 1. It were to know him , as he knows himself . 2. It were to know , or to excel , himself ...
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Page 44 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 10 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 47 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 11 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 44 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 23 - tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 46 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 17 - Hamlet he seems to have wished to exemplify the moral necessity of a due balance between our attention to the objects of our senses, and our meditation on the workings of our minds, an equilibrium between the real and the imaginary worlds.
Page 11 - Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once ; And he that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment', should But judge you as you are ? Oh ! think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 22 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.