Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by Methodical Analysis of the Play ...J.W. Parker, 1848 - 103 pages |
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... duties of domestic life with the dignity of a king and the delicacy of a gentleman , while his per- sonal appearance was worthy of his whole character and demeanour . At the same time it is intimated that he was THE FATHER'S SON . 21 ...
... duties of domestic life with the dignity of a king and the delicacy of a gentleman , while his per- sonal appearance was worthy of his whole character and demeanour . At the same time it is intimated that he was THE FATHER'S SON . 21 ...
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... duty not only to himself but to the world . Such a son of such a father is Hamlet , as he comes before us , at the age of thirty , when the Play opens . Birth and the court have given him the feeling and the manners , the quick ...
... duty not only to himself but to the world . Such a son of such a father is Hamlet , as he comes before us , at the age of thirty , when the Play opens . Birth and the court have given him the feeling and the manners , the quick ...
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... duty contrasts most strongly with ordinary civil life , keeping watch on the ramparts of the castle , alone , at midnight , the bitterly cold wind from the north sea blowing on him , while in the dead silence he listens in vain for the ...
... duty contrasts most strongly with ordinary civil life , keeping watch on the ramparts of the castle , alone , at midnight , the bitterly cold wind from the north sea blowing on him , while in the dead silence he listens in vain for the ...
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... it , As needful in our loves , fitting our duty ? — we see again his good judgment in advising what is to be done in consequence of the important occurrence they had LYRICAL CLOSE OF THE SCENE . 27 just witnessed ; 26 ACT I , SCENE 1 .
... it , As needful in our loves , fitting our duty ? — we see again his good judgment in advising what is to be done in consequence of the important occurrence they had LYRICAL CLOSE OF THE SCENE . 27 just witnessed ; 26 ACT I , SCENE 1 .
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... duties of sovereignty , exercised as they would have been by one possessing such great practical talents as Hamlet ever shows when any external necessity forces him to exert them , would have preserved the due balance in his cha- racter ...
... duties of sovereignty , exercised as they would have been by one possessing such great practical talents as Hamlet ever shows when any external necessity forces him to exert them , would have preserved the due balance in his cha- racter ...
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Page 43 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 87 - There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come 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...
Page 30 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 91 - I loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 70 - 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 27 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 45 - Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 73 - I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
Page 70 - 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 25 - When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one, — Enter Ghost.