Shakspeare's tragedy of Hamlet, with notes, extr. from the old 'Historie of Hamblet' &c., adapted for use in schools by J. Hunter |
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... king among them , who , being adorned with the most perfect gifts of nature , would addict himself to virtue , and use courtesy ; but although the people had him in admiration , yet the envy of his neigh- bours was so great , that they ...
... king among them , who , being adorned with the most perfect gifts of nature , would addict himself to virtue , and use courtesy ; but although the people had him in admiration , yet the envy of his neigh- bours was so great , that they ...
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... king Roderick , thereby to procure his good - liking . The king , allured by those presents , and esteeming himself happy to have so valiant a subject , sought by a great favour and courtesy to make him become bounden unto him per ...
... king Roderick , thereby to procure his good - liking . The king , allured by those presents , and esteeming himself happy to have so valiant a subject , sought by a great favour and courtesy to make him become bounden unto him per ...
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... king's desire , and thereby to entrap Hamblet in his subtleties , and cause him of his own accord to fall into the net prepared for him , and thereby evidently show his secret meaning . His device was thus ; that King Fengon should make ...
... king's desire , and thereby to entrap Hamblet in his subtleties , and cause him of his own accord to fall into the net prepared for him , and thereby evidently show his secret meaning . His device was thus ; that King Fengon should make ...
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... king that , if there were any point of wisdom and perfect sense in the gallant's spirit , without all doubt he would easily discover it to his mother , as being devoid of all fear that she would utter or make known his secret intent ...
... king that , if there were any point of wisdom and perfect sense in the gallant's spirit , without all doubt he would easily discover it to his mother , as being devoid of all fear that she would utter or make known his secret intent ...
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... king - to live like a brute beast , to follow the pleasure of an abominable king , that hath murdered a far honester and better man than himself in massacring Horvendile , the honour and glory of all the Danes ? I , for my part , will ...
... king - to live like a brute beast , to follow the pleasure of an abominable king , that hath murdered a far honester and better man than himself in massacring Horvendile , the honour and glory of all the Danes ? I , for my part , will ...
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action answer appears arms bear believe better blood body cause character comes common dead dear death Denmark desire doth doubt earth edition England Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father fear follow friends Ghost give Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hand hast hath head hear heart heaven hold honour Horatio keep killed kind King lady Laer Laertes leave live look lord madness matter means mind mother murder nature never night noble Note once Ophelia play players Polonius pray present prince Queen question reason revenge Rosencrantz SCENE seems seen sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's soul speak speech spirit stand sweet tell thee thing thou thought true turn virtue young youth
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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 31 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may...
Page 107 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 78 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me; I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in : What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth!
Page 46 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Page 18 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 107 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 82 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 30 - The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
Page 117 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.