 | Henry Mackenzie - 1783 - 340 pages
...and permanent impreffion of his revenge, is thrown for a while off its poife, and, in the paroxyfm of the moment, breaks forth into that extravagant...of his mind to fhew themfelves in the midft of his affeifled extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 260 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its ^reat subject; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it... | |
 | 1803 - 354 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequent'" glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his Jedge of which it was certainly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 380 pages
...\rniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which,it was certainly... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 438 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject j but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 358 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to show themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to show themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness yOL. II. AA of his uncle, his knowledge of which... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 340 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject; but it frequently glanced cm the wickIn two of Shakspeare's tragedies are introduced, at the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 526 pages
...uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to show themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on...Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
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... of the] moment, breaks forth into that extravagant rhapsody which he utters to Laertes. Counterfeited madness, in a person of the character I have ascribed to Hamlet, could not be so uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his... 
