Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William ShakespeareW. Wilkins, 1736 - 52 pages |
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... Absurdity or other . But then , how eafily may we forgive this , when we reflect upon his many Excellencies ! The Tragedy that is now coming under our Examination , is one of the best of his Pieces , and strikes us with a cer- tain Awe ...
... Absurdity or other . But then , how eafily may we forgive this , when we reflect upon his many Excellencies ! The Tragedy that is now coming under our Examination , is one of the best of his Pieces , and strikes us with a cer- tain Awe ...
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... Absurdity in his Plot . And I must premife also this , that in my Examination of the whole Conduct of the Play , the Reader must not be surprised , if I censure any Part of it , although it be entirely in Conformity to the Plan the ...
... Absurdity in his Plot . And I must premife also this , that in my Examination of the whole Conduct of the Play , the Reader must not be surprised , if I censure any Part of it , although it be entirely in Conformity to the Plan the ...
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... Absurdity ; for there appears no Reason at all in Nature , why the young Prince did not put the Ufurper to Death as foon as possible , especially as Hamlet is repre- sented as a Youth so brave , and so careless of his own Life . F THE ...
... Absurdity ; for there appears no Reason at all in Nature , why the young Prince did not put the Ufurper to Death as foon as possible , especially as Hamlet is repre- sented as a Youth so brave , and so careless of his own Life . F THE ...
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... Absurdity of fuch Arbitrary Rules . For how would fuch a Ge- nius as Shakespeare's have been cramped had he thus fettered himself ! But there is ( in Truth ) no Necessity for it . No Rules are of any Ser- vice in Poetry , of any kind ...
... Absurdity of fuch Arbitrary Rules . For how would fuch a Ge- nius as Shakespeare's have been cramped had he thus fettered himself ! But there is ( in Truth ) no Necessity for it . No Rules are of any Ser- vice in Poetry , of any kind ...
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... Absurdity one would think that should immediately revolt us ; but which is , however , absolutely necef- fary in all Countries where Dramatick Per- formances are resorted to , unless the Charac- ters be always supposed to be of each ...
... Absurdity one would think that should immediately revolt us ; but which is , however , absolutely necef- fary in all Countries where Dramatick Per- formances are resorted to , unless the Charac- ters be always supposed to be of each ...
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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.