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Page 10
But upon the very face of it, and especially under the circumstances, has it not
clearly a very different purport The previous edition is so corrupt, disconnected,
and heterogeneous that the least observant reader, even of that day, when plays
...
But upon the very face of it, and especially under the circumstances, has it not
clearly a very different purport The previous edition is so corrupt, disconnected,
and heterogeneous that the least observant reader, even of that day, when plays
...
Page 11
But, not to weary the reader with such minute analysis, I shall consider three or
four prominent and characteristic passages, and leave a closer comparison to
those who desire to. * Such as “Enter Ofelia playing on a lute, and her haire down
...
But, not to weary the reader with such minute analysis, I shall consider three or
four prominent and characteristic passages, and leave a closer comparison to
those who desire to. * Such as “Enter Ofelia playing on a lute, and her haire down
...
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What he did write, having the same purpose, the reader will find in the beginning
of the second Scene of Act W.; and he will notice, that the occurrences which
Hamlet in that version relates to Horatio are exactly the same as those of which in
...
What he did write, having the same purpose, the reader will find in the beginning
of the second Scene of Act W.; and he will notice, that the occurrences which
Hamlet in that version relates to Horatio are exactly the same as those of which in
...
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... verse-monger who undertook to bridge the gaps and smooth the surface of a
rough and fragmentary copy of the genuine and completed tragedy — the very
tragedy, “perfect in all its members,” that the reader will find in the ensuing pages.
... verse-monger who undertook to bridge the gaps and smooth the surface of a
rough and fragmentary copy of the genuine and completed tragedy — the very
tragedy, “perfect in all its members,” that the reader will find in the ensuing pages.
Page 22
Still the text of Hamlet, as we are able to present it to the reader, is distinguished
rather by a very few striking and important corruptions than by many of minor
import. And in fact there is hardly a passage in the tragedy, excepting that in the
first ...
Still the text of Hamlet, as we are able to present it to the reader, is distinguished
rather by a very few striking and important corruptions than by many of minor
import. And in fact there is hardly a passage in the tragedy, excepting that in the
first ...
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Page 83 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 152 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 78 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing...
Page 86 - O ! it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 87 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question}: of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 428 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 109 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 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 49 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
Page 34 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms...
Page 270 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
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| Title | THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE VOL. XI |
| Author | RICHARD GRANT WHITE |
| Published | 1862 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
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