Hamlet, Or, Shakespeare's Philosophy of History: A Study of the Spiritual Soul and Unity of HamletWilliams and Norgate, 1875 - 208 pages |
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Page vii
... to remark , the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays is not an affair which will remain for ever at the dispensation of fancy or of carping criticism . Our Poet's own words will finally lift the veil off his works , HAMLET PREFACE PAGE.
... to remark , the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays is not an affair which will remain for ever at the dispensation of fancy or of carping criticism . Our Poet's own words will finally lift the veil off his works , HAMLET PREFACE PAGE.
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... criticism . We see his hands , his feet , his legs , but we are too near the Colossus to see the whole in perspective . Time will alone gradually heighten our view of him . " He who wants the wealth of the Indies should take wealth to ...
... criticism . We see his hands , his feet , his legs , but we are too near the Colossus to see the whole in perspective . Time will alone gradually heighten our view of him . " He who wants the wealth of the Indies should take wealth to ...
Page xvii
... Critics are impatient because Hamlet fails to kill the King at once . We would ask them , why truth does not realize itself at once ? 1 Shakespeare has evidently endeavoured to embody in characters the conflict- ing forces of history ...
... Critics are impatient because Hamlet fails to kill the King at once . We would ask them , why truth does not realize itself at once ? 1 Shakespeare has evidently endeavoured to embody in characters the conflict- ing forces of history ...
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... criticism . The introduction of Clowns , and the curious conversations , are apparently out of harmony with the rest of the play . But , by our solution , the play comes out in double its striking clearness and spiritual ...
... criticism . The introduction of Clowns , and the curious conversations , are apparently out of harmony with the rest of the play . But , by our solution , the play comes out in double its striking clearness and spiritual ...
Page xxiv
... criticism altogether , we have refrained from expanding this little work into those dimensions which could alone do justice to the subject . Sufficient for us if we have thrown a new light over this sublime tragedy . Hastily written ...
... criticism altogether , we have refrained from expanding this little work into those dimensions which could alone do justice to the subject . Sufficient for us if we have thrown a new light over this sublime tragedy . Hastily written ...
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action apprenticeship artistic authority banishment belief Bernardo Cassio casuistry cause century certainty character Church Churchyard-scene Clown conception conflict courtiers criticism death of Polonius discovery divine doubt dramatic effect enemies England error everything expressed father force Fortinbras genius Ghost gives Goethe growth Hamlet says hand harmony hero Horatio human Iago ideal Jephthah justice King's knowledge Laertes latter liberty literature lord Lord Chamberlain Marcellus meaning mind naked nature never Norway Ophelia opinion Osric Othello parallel Philosophy of History pictured Player-scene Players Poet Poet's present Prince Prince Hamlet principle profound progress Queen question rationalism reader realize recognize Reformation religion represents result Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scene scepticism Shakespeare side signifies social sophistry soul symbol things thou thought tion tradition tragedy true truth unity Voltimand whilst whole play Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship William Shakespeare Wittenberg word
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Page 61 - 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; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 23 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 129 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Page 38 - Nay, do not think I flatter; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 130 - Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep...
Page 74 - Ham. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in shape of a camel ? Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Ham. Methinks, it is like a weasel. Pol. It is backed like a weasel. Ham. Or, like a whale? Pol. Very like a whale.
Page 129 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
Page 163 - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.
Page 77 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
Page 28 - Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god, kissing carrion, Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing; but as your daughter may conceive, — friend, look to 't.