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... ghost , are conventionally little more than figures under an injunction not to make themselves too interesting to the spectators : and thus it eventually arises that the effect produced by an appearance from the grave fails to be ...
... ghost , are conventionally little more than figures under an injunction not to make themselves too interesting to the spectators : and thus it eventually arises that the effect produced by an appearance from the grave fails to be ...
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... ghost causes even Horatio to be speechless with wonder and dread . Bernardo and Marcellus appeal to him , exhort him to speak ; and for a time in vain ; and when he does speak his brief words only betoken his consternation . Enter GHOST ...
... ghost causes even Horatio to be speechless with wonder and dread . Bernardo and Marcellus appeal to him , exhort him to speak ; and for a time in vain ; and when he does speak his brief words only betoken his consternation . Enter GHOST ...
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... ghost re - appears ; and although producing less wonder , stirs them to more excitement , and especially Horatio , whose speech is thus suddenly interrupted . His state of mind is vividly expressed in his words . But , soft ; behold ...
... ghost re - appears ; and although producing less wonder , stirs them to more excitement , and especially Horatio , whose speech is thus suddenly interrupted . His state of mind is vividly expressed in his words . But , soft ; behold ...
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... ghost , which had seemed about to speak , starts " like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons , " and moves away ... ghosts obey ; and , with reference to the disappearance 16 A STUDY OF HAMLET . That may to thee do ease, and grace to ...
... ghost , which had seemed about to speak , starts " like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons , " and moves away ... ghosts obey ; and , with reference to the disappearance 16 A STUDY OF HAMLET . That may to thee do ease, and grace to ...
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John Conolly. ghosts obey ; and , with reference to the disappearance of that which they have seen on the crowing of the cock , on the warning always given thus to every wandering ghost , every “ extravagant and erring spirit , " to hie ...
John Conolly. ghosts obey ; and , with reference to the disappearance of that which they have seen on the crowing of the cock , on the warning always given thus to every wandering ghost , every “ extravagant and erring spirit , " to hie ...
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Page 133 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 98 - Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 38 - 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 21 - 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 nqt beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 155 - 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.
Page 112 - 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...
Page 114 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Page 61 - 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 113 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 204 - I do not think so; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart; but it is no matter.