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" Hamlet is a name: his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. "
The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ... - Page 349
1818
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...whose thoughts we seem to know as well as we do our own, because we have read them in Shak•peare. Hamlet is a name : his speeches and sayings but the...reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetick truth, which is above that of history. Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy, through...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 18

English literature - 1818 - 590 pages
...inform us that there is no such person as Hamlet. ' Hamlet is a name : his speeches and sayings are but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then,...is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.' If this means that we sympathise so much with the feelings and sentiments of Hamlet, that we identify...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...all whose thoughts we seem to know as well as we do our own, because we have read them in Shakipeare. Hamlet is a name : his speeches and sayings but the...coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not reSl ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

Decoration and ornament - 1820 - 474 pages
...all whose thoughts we seem to know as well as we do our own, because we have read them in Sbakspeare. Hamlet is a name; his speeches and sayings but the...What then, are they not real ? They are as real as ourown thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who fire Hamlet. This play has a prophetic...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

1837 - 568 pages
...lhanHazlitt? ' Hamlet is a name : his speeches and sayings are but the idle coinage of a poet's hrain. What then ? are they not real? They are as real as...thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is ire who are Hamlet. Whoever has hecome thoughtful and melancholy, through his own mishaps or those...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...determination not to be balked or baffled in any thing he has taken it into his head he should say. " Hamlet is a name : his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. But are they not real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind....
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...Yorick's skull ; the school-fellow of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at Wittenberg; the friend of Horatio; the lover of Ophelia; he that was mad and sent to...then, are they not real ? They are as real as our own thgughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is toe who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 45

English literature - 1846 - 514 pages
...absurdity. Hazlitt says of this character — " Hamlet is a name, his speeches and sayings but the coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not...is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet." What a number of prototypes then must there be of this moody prince, when the tragedy under his name...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...a name: his speeches and sayings bat ihe idle coinage of Ihe port's brain. But are they not real t They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is tre who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is above that of history. Whoever has become...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...determination not to be balked or baffled in any thing he has taken it into his head he should say. " Hamlet is a name : his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. But are they not real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind....
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