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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... practical teacher of his countrymen in this , as in so much else ; and how Coleridge is here , as elsewhere , our best interpreter of the universal language of genius into the vernacular of his , and our own , times . If I shall have ...
... practical teacher of his countrymen in this , as in so much else ; and how Coleridge is here , as elsewhere , our best interpreter of the universal language of genius into the vernacular of his , and our own , times . If I shall have ...
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... plot of the Tragedy , and consequently that Shakspeare's purpose was not merely ' to exemplify the moral necessity of a due balance between * Literary Remains , II . 204–207 . PRACTICAL LESSON OF THE PLAY . 17 our attention to.
... plot of the Tragedy , and consequently that Shakspeare's purpose was not merely ' to exemplify the moral necessity of a due balance between * Literary Remains , II . 204–207 . PRACTICAL LESSON OF THE PLAY . 17 our attention to.
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... PRACTICAL LESSON OF THE PLAY . 17 our attention to the objects of our senses , and our medi- tation on the workings of our minds , ' by exhibiting the fate of a victim ' to the want of that balance ; but the far higher , more moral ...
... PRACTICAL LESSON OF THE PLAY . 17 our attention to the objects of our senses , and our medi- tation on the workings of our minds , ' by exhibiting the fate of a victim ' to the want of that balance ; but the far higher , more moral ...
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... practical guide of the heart and conscience . His temper is naturally irritable and pas- sionate , as might be expected with one who was at once a prince , and the only child of a foolishly fond mother ; but this irritability is for the ...
... practical guide of the heart and conscience . His temper is naturally irritable and pas- sionate , as might be expected with one who was at once a prince , and the only child of a foolishly fond mother ; but this irritability is for the ...
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... 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 ; meditation and action , philosophy and business , theory and practice , would have ...
... 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 ; meditation and action , philosophy and business , theory and practice , would have ...
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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.