Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William ShakespeareW. Wilkins, 1736 - 52 pages |
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... sensible to every Reader who has the leaft Tincture of Letters ; but thus much we must observe , that before his Time there were very few ( if any ) Dramatick Per- formances of any Tragick Writer , which de- ferve to be remembred ; so ...
... sensible to every Reader who has the leaft Tincture of Letters ; but thus much we must observe , that before his Time there were very few ( if any ) Dramatick Per- formances of any Tragick Writer , which de- ferve to be remembred ; so ...
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... sensible and true Avouch Of mine own Eyes . THIS Speech still helps on our Deception , for the Reasons I have already given , Page 228 . Horatio , Such was the very Armour be I HAVE heard many Persons wonder why the Poet should. bad on ...
... sensible and true Avouch Of mine own Eyes . THIS Speech still helps on our Deception , for the Reasons I have already given , Page 228 . Horatio , Such was the very Armour be I HAVE heard many Persons wonder why the Poet should. bad on ...
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... sensible himself , ) our old Statesman behaves suitably to his Dignity , and acts fully up to his Paternal Character ; fo here we shall not tax him . THE Advice of Laertes to his Sister con- tains the foundest Reasoning , express'd in ...
... sensible himself , ) our old Statesman behaves suitably to his Dignity , and acts fully up to his Paternal Character ; fo here we shall not tax him . THE Advice of Laertes to his Sister con- tains the foundest Reasoning , express'd in ...
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... sensible that our Nation has long been cenfur'd for delighting in bloody Scenes on the Stage , and our Poets have been found fault with for complying with this vicious Taste . I cannot but own , that there is a great deal of Justice in ...
... sensible that our Nation has long been cenfur'd for delighting in bloody Scenes on the Stage , and our Poets have been found fault with for complying with this vicious Taste . I cannot but own , that there is a great deal of Justice in ...
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... sensible of the Truth of what I now fay , as appears in his Preface to his Brutus ) even they have been forced to damp their Fire , and keep their Spirit from foaring in almost all their Pieces ; and all this is owing to the falfe ...
... sensible of the Truth of what I now fay , as appears in his Preface to his Brutus ) even they have been forced to damp their Fire , and keep their Spirit from foaring in almost all their Pieces ; and all this is owing to the falfe ...
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abſolutely Abſurdity almoſt alſo Amlethus appear Audience Author Beauties becauſe Behaviour beſt Cauſe Character Circumſtances cloſe Comick Conſequence Converſation Courſe Critick Cuſtom Death defire Deluſion Denmark Deſcription Deſign Diction Dignity Diſcourſe Dramatick eaſy elſe Embaſſy eſpecially expreſs'd expreſſed Expreſſions faid fame Father Fault feems Fengo firſt fome Friendſhip fuitable Gerutha Ghoſt give Hamlet Horatio Impoſition juſt juſtly King King's Laertes Laertes's laſt leaſt leſs Madness moſt Murder muſt Nature neceſſary neſs never obſerve Occaſion Ophelia Paffion Paſſage Paſſions Perſon pleaſe Pleaſure Poet Poetry Polonius poſe poſſible Prince Hamlet Prince's racter raiſe a Laugh Reaſon Repreſentation repreſented Revenge ſay Scene ſeems ſenſible ſented Sentiments Sequel ſerve ſeveral Shakespeare's ſhall ſhe ſhews ſhocking ſhort ſhould ſome ſpeak Spectators Spectre Speech ſtance ſtill ſtrong ſuch ſuppoſed take Notice Taſte Theobalds theſe theſe Lines Thing thoſe Tragedy Tragick Writers Ufurper Underſtandings uſe Verſe virtuous whoſe young Prince
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Page 19 - 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 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 19 - Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; yet, within a month, Let me not think Frailty, thy name is Woman...
Page 11 - 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?
Page 33 - England ; which design, had it taken effect upon his life, he never could have revenged his father's murder.
Page 21 - I have not mentioned the incest of her marriage, which is so obvious a provocation ; but cannot forbear taking notice, that when his fury is at its height, he cries, " Frailty, thy name is Woman...
Page 46 - Ophelia's madnefs was chiefly for her father's death, or for the lofs of Hamlet. It is not often that young women run mad for the lofs of their fathers. It is more natural to...
Page 49 - Denmark, as he had the dying voice of the prince. He in a few words gives a noble character of Hamlet, and ferves to carry off the...
Page 55 - And the more I read him, the more I am convinced, that as he knew his own particular Talent well, he study'd more to work up great and moving Circumstances to place his chief Characters in, so as to affect our Passions strongly, he apply'd himself more to This than he did to the Means or Methods whereby he brought his Characters into those Circumstances.
Page 4 - But the Province of an Editor and a Commentator is quite foreign to that of a Poet. The former endeavours to give us an Author as he is ; the latter, by the Correclnefs and Excellency of his own Genius, is often tempted to give us an Author as he thinks he ought to be.