Shakespeare Select Plays: Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkAt The Clarendon Press, 1872 - 250 pages |
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... occurs a passage which certainly refers to a play of Hamlet , and has been thought to contain an attack on Shake- speare . We quote from the reprint of the edition of 1616 as it is given in Sir Egerton Brydges ' Archaica , vol . i ...
... occurs a passage which certainly refers to a play of Hamlet , and has been thought to contain an attack on Shake- speare . We quote from the reprint of the edition of 1616 as it is given in Sir Egerton Brydges ' Archaica , vol . i ...
Page x
... occurs in iii . 1 , is in the older form introduced in the middle of ii . 2. Polonius is Corambis in the older play , and Reynaldo is Montano . The madness of Hamlet is much more pronounced , and the Queen's innocence of her hus- band's ...
... occurs in iii . 1 , is in the older form introduced in the middle of ii . 2. Polonius is Corambis in the older play , and Reynaldo is Montano . The madness of Hamlet is much more pronounced , and the Queen's innocence of her hus- band's ...
Page xi
... occurs as it now stands , but on the whole it is very defective , and appears to have been set down from memory . The opening of the second scene is changed , and in the quarto of 1603 seems to belong to the original play . On the other ...
... occurs as it now stands , but on the whole it is very defective , and appears to have been set down from memory . The opening of the second scene is changed , and in the quarto of 1603 seems to belong to the original play . On the other ...
Page 121
... . But might you do ' t and do the world no wrong ? 6 So may ' for ' can , ' Merchant of Venice , i . 3. 7 , May you pleasure me ? ' Abbott , § 312 . 57. avouch does not occur elsewhere as a substantive in sc . 1. ] 121 HAMLET .
... . But might you do ' t and do the world no wrong ? 6 So may ' for ' can , ' Merchant of Venice , i . 3. 7 , May you pleasure me ? ' Abbott , § 312 . 57. avouch does not occur elsewhere as a substantive in sc . 1. ] 121 HAMLET .
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare. 57. avouch does not occur elsewhere as a substantive in Shakespeare ... occurs four times in Hamlet . 6 For the sledded Polacks ' Moltke reads his leaded pole - axe . ' But this would be ...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare. 57. avouch does not occur elsewhere as a substantive in Shakespeare ... occurs four times in Hamlet . 6 For the sledded Polacks ' Moltke reads his leaded pole - axe . ' But this would be ...
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Page 48 - What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 49 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 71 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 68 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 41 - 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 than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 68 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 95 - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 65 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. Why ! do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 55 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure. Now this, overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 49 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.