Edda: nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, Volume 6

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Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull
Universitetsforlaget, 1916

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Page 101 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 81 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self -place ; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be...
Page 67 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Page 114 - Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 93 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Page 81 - Ay, wealthier far than any Christian. I must confess we come not to be kings. That's not our fault. Alas, our number's few, And crowns come either by succession Or urged by force; and nothing violent, Oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. Give us a peaceful rule; make Christians kings, That thirst so much for principality.
Page 93 - But there, where I have garnered* up my heart. Where either I must live or bear no life, 60 The fountain* from the which my current runs, Or else dries up: to be discarded thence! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in!
Page 67 - ... arising from accidental causes, and not from the doubts and hesitation of his own mind, the anxiety of the spectator might have been highly raised; but it would have been anxiety for the event, not for the person. As it is, we feel not only the virtues, but the weaknesses, of Hamlet as our own ; we see a man...
Page 43 - Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, •' -^ ' Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ?

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