Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkJ.R. Smith, 1864 - 52 pages |
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... exalted Genius as our Author certainly was , lest we should blame them when in reality the Fault lies in our own slow Conception , we should well consider what would have been our Author's View in such a Conduct . I must confess , I ...
... exalted Genius as our Author certainly was , lest we should blame them when in reality the Fault lies in our own slow Conception , we should well consider what would have been our Author's View in such a Conduct . I must confess , I ...
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... exalted Sentiments . It is certain , our Author excell'd in this kind of Writing , as has been more than once observed by several Writers , and none ever before or since his Time , could ever bring Inhabitants of another World upon the ...
... exalted Sentiments . It is certain , our Author excell'd in this kind of Writing , as has been more than once observed by several Writers , and none ever before or since his Time , could ever bring Inhabitants of another World upon the ...
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... exalted Capacity . Mr. Warbur- ton's Note ( in Mr. Theobalds ) on Laertes's Rebellion , is very judicious , ( as indeed are all those of that Gentleman ) soot So why only I cannot think Laertes ( for the Reasons I have given ) . a good ...
... exalted Capacity . Mr. Warbur- ton's Note ( in Mr. Theobalds ) on Laertes's Rebellion , is very judicious , ( as indeed are all those of that Gentleman ) soot So why only I cannot think Laertes ( for the Reasons I have given ) . a good ...
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... exalted Diction which is so peculiarly his own , and in fine , all the Charms of his Poetry , far outweigh any little Absurdity in his Plots , which no ways disturb us in the Pleasures we reap from the above - mention'd Excellencies ...
... exalted Diction which is so peculiarly his own , and in fine , all the Charms of his Poetry , far outweigh any little Absurdity in his Plots , which no ways disturb us in the Pleasures we reap from the above - mention'd Excellencies ...
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... exalted Understandings . So on the other Hand , a Piece which turns upon Passions , which regard those of high Station chiefly , cannot be so pleasing to the Vulgar ; for tho ' all Men are born with the same Passions , yet Education ...
... exalted Understandings . So on the other Hand , a Piece which turns upon Passions , which regard those of high Station chiefly , cannot be so pleasing to the Vulgar ; for tho ' all Men are born with the same Passions , yet Education ...
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Page 15 - God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 15 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Page 15 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 15 - Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...
Page 9 - What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march ? by heaven I charge thee, speak ! Mar.
Page 15 - Frailty, thy name is woman! — A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears — why she, even she (O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn d longer) married with my uncle; My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.
Page 15 - Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!