Shakspeare's tragedy of Hamlet, with notes, extr. from the old 'Historie of Hamblet' &c., adapted for use in schools by J. Hunter |
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... means of deciding , nor to what extent Shakspeare availed himself of such improvement . ' * The following extract from Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters deserves to be read by the student of Shakspeare's Hamlet . I cannot help thinking ...
... means of deciding , nor to what extent Shakspeare availed himself of such improvement . ' * The following extract from Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters deserves to be read by the student of Shakspeare's Hamlet . I cannot help thinking ...
Page vii
... means and his meaning into two colours ; he baits craft with humility , and his countenance is the picture of the present disposition . He allures , is not allured , by his affections , for they are the brokers of his observation ...
... means and his meaning into two colours ; he baits craft with humility , and his countenance is the picture of the present disposition . He allures , is not allured , by his affections , for they are the brokers of his observation ...
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... means more attractive , whereby the gallant might not have the leisure to use his accustomed dissimulation ; which to effect , he said , he knew a fit way , and a most con- venient mean to effect the king's desire , and thereby to ...
... means more attractive , whereby the gallant might not have the leisure to use his accustomed dissimulation ; which to effect , he said , he knew a fit way , and a most con- venient mean to effect the king's desire , and thereby to ...
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... means intercepted , used his ordinary manner of dissimulation , and began to crow like a cock , beating with his arms upon the hangings of the chamber , whereby , feeling something stirring under them , he cried , ' A rat , a rat ...
... means intercepted , used his ordinary manner of dissimulation , and began to crow like a cock , beating with his arms upon the hangings of the chamber , whereby , feeling something stirring under them , he cried , ' A rat , a rat ...
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... means to save your child by sending him into Swethland , Norway , or England , rather than to leave him as a prey to your infamous adulterer ? Be not offended , I pray you , madam , if , transported with grief , I speak so boldly unto ...
... means to save your child by sending him into Swethland , Norway , or England , rather than to leave him as a prey to your infamous adulterer ? Be not offended , I pray you , madam , if , transported with grief , I speak so boldly unto ...
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Page 19 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 31 - 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, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may...
Page 107 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 78 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? 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 heaven and earth!
Page 46 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Page 18 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 107 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 82 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as '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.
Page 30 - The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
Page 117 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.