 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 444 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 442 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... | |
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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... 
