The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Issue 14G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
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... madness of Hamlet causes much mirth , the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness , and every personage produces the effect intended , from the ap- parition that in the first act chills the blood with horror , to ...
... madness of Hamlet causes much mirth , the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness , and every personage produces the effect intended , from the ap- parition that in the first act chills the blood with horror , to ...
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... madness ? think of it : The very place puts toys 26 of desperation , Without more motive , into every brain , That looks so many fathoms to the sea , And hears it roar beneath . Ham . Go on , I'll follow thee . It waves me still : - Mar ...
... madness ? think of it : The very place puts toys 26 of desperation , Without more motive , into every brain , That looks so many fathoms to the sea , And hears it roar beneath . Ham . Go on , I'll follow thee . It waves me still : - Mar ...
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... madness , What is't , but to be nothing else but mad : But let that go . Queen . More matter , with less art . Pol . Madam , I swear , I use no art at all . That he is mad , ' tis true : ' tis true , ' tis pity ; And pity ' tis , ' tis ...
... madness , What is't , but to be nothing else but mad : But let that go . Queen . More matter , with less art . Pol . Madam , I swear , I use no art at all . That he is mad , ' tis true : ' tis true , ' tis pity ; And pity ' tis , ' tis ...
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... madness wherein now he raves , And all we mourn for . King . Do you think , ' tis this ? Queen . It may be , very likely . Pol . Hath there been such a time , ( I'd fain know that , ) That I have positively said , ' Tis so , When it ...
... madness wherein now he raves , And all we mourn for . King . Do you think , ' tis this ? Queen . It may be , very likely . Pol . Hath there been such a time , ( I'd fain know that , ) That I have positively said , ' Tis so , When it ...
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... madness , yet there's method in it . [ Aside . ] Will you walk out of the air , my lord ? Ham . Into my grave ? Pol . Indeed , that is out o'the air . -How pregnant sometimes his replies are ! a happiness that often mad- ness hits on ...
... madness , yet there's method in it . [ Aside . ] Will you walk out of the air , my lord ? Ham . Into my grave ? Pol . Indeed , that is out o'the air . -How pregnant sometimes his replies are ! a happiness that often mad- ness hits on ...
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Page 156 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 282 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 34 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 353 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 234 - twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man ; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have us'd : Here comes the lady ; let her witness it.
Page 79 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 102 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 94 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 74 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 143 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?