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
... Finally , we have 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 ...
... Finally , we have 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 ...
Page viii
... finally lift the veil off his works , and then let those who think they know him best beware of eating their own words . It is high time some attempt be made to show Shakespeare was a thinker , and not alone an artist . We can imagine ...
... finally lift the veil off his works , and then let those who think they know him best beware of eating their own words . It is high time some attempt be made to show Shakespeare was a thinker , and not alone an artist . We can imagine ...
Page xxi
... Finally he comes in as conqueror at the end of the tragedy . He is part of Hamlet , and we are directly told in the Church- yard - scene that liberty and progress ( or truth - seeking ) , were contemporary and identical births . The ...
... Finally he comes in as conqueror at the end of the tragedy . He is part of Hamlet , and we are directly told in the Church- yard - scene that liberty and progress ( or truth - seeking ) , were contemporary and identical births . The ...
Page xxiii
... Finally , Hamlet begins to study the science of history or progress , and in doing this he studies himself . When he learns how he was born , and that he is related to liberty and knowledge in general , we may not be thought too bold if ...
... Finally , Hamlet begins to study the science of history or progress , and in doing this he studies himself . When he learns how he was born , and that he is related to liberty and knowledge in general , we may not be thought too bold if ...
Page xxviii
... Finally man's apprenticeship is accomplished , and Hamlet ( expressing the action of the conflict alone ) , having performed his mission , dies . This , in our opinion , is the main outline of the solution and rationalistic ...
... Finally man's apprenticeship is accomplished , and Hamlet ( expressing the action of the conflict alone ) , having performed his mission , dies . This , in our opinion , is the main outline of the solution and rationalistic ...
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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.