Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William ShakespeareW. Wilkins, 1736 - 52 pages |
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... thefe Papers are too few to contain them ; and I have fo little of Prefumption in me , that I did not think it reasonable to put my Readers to a greater Expence , by enlarging on the Subject , until I find that they themselves are not ...
... thefe Papers are too few to contain them ; and I have fo little of Prefumption in me , that I did not think it reasonable to put my Readers to a greater Expence , by enlarging on the Subject , until I find that they themselves are not ...
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... thefe Re- marks of mine , to arrogate any Superiority of Genius ; but I think every one should contri- tribute to the Improvement of fome Branch or other of Literature in this Country of ours , and thus furnish out his Share towards the ...
... thefe Re- marks of mine , to arrogate any Superiority of Genius ; but I think every one should contri- tribute to the Improvement of fome Branch or other of Literature in this Country of ours , and thus furnish out his Share towards the ...
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... Thefe certainly have not the great Effect that others have , which turn either upon Ambition , the Love of one's Country , or Paternal or Filial Tenderness . Accordingly we find , that few among the Ancients , and hardly any of our ...
... Thefe certainly have not the great Effect that others have , which turn either upon Ambition , the Love of one's Country , or Paternal or Filial Tenderness . Accordingly we find , that few among the Ancients , and hardly any of our ...
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... repeating the whole Story , which would have been tiresome to the Spectators , as thefe Gentlemen were o- bliged foon after to relate the Whole to Prince Hamlet . Ho HORATIO's Speeches to the Apparition are exceeding Natural , Aweful ( 10 )
... repeating the whole Story , which would have been tiresome to the Spectators , as thefe Gentlemen were o- bliged foon after to relate the Whole to Prince Hamlet . Ho HORATIO's Speeches to the Apparition are exceeding Natural , Aweful ( 10 )
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... Thefe Reasons and the whole Conduct of the Piece convince me , that this is one of Shake- Speare's Plays , in which the leaft Time is em- ploy'd ; how much there is , I cannot pretend to say . As to the Prolepfis , or in other Words ...
... Thefe Reasons and the whole Conduct of the Piece convince me , that this is one of Shake- Speare's Plays , in which the leaft Time is em- ploy'd ; how much there is , I cannot pretend to say . As to the Prolepfis , or in other Words ...
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Abfurdity alfo almoſt Amlethus appear Audience Author Beauties becauſe Befides Behaviour beſt Caufe cauſe Character Circumſtances Comick Confequence Converfation Courſe Critick Cuſtom Death Defign defire Denmark Deſcription Diction Dignity Dramatick elfe exprefs'd faid fame Father Fault feems fent ferve fhall fhews fhocking fhort fhould Filial Piety fince fome fpeak Friendſhip ftill fuch a Piece fuitable fuppofe furely Gerutha Ghoft Ghoſt give greateſt Hamlet himſelf Horatio Impofition juſt King Laertes Laertes's laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Madneſs Majeſty moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary nefs never Norway obferve Occafion Ophelia Paffions Perfons Play pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poet poffible Polonius Prince Hamlet Prince's Profe Puniſhment racter raiſe a Laugh Reaſon Repreſentation repreſented Revenge Romeo and Juliet Scene ſeem Sentiments Sequel Shakespeare's Sophocles Spectators Spectre Speech ſtrong take Notice Taſte Tenderneſs thefe themſelves Theobalds theſe Lines Thing thofe thoſe Tragedy Tragick Writers Ufurper Underſtandings uſe virtuous whole
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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.