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... language of Europe . The German translation of it , by Augustus William Schlegel , is considered by those most competent to form an estimate of its merits , as * approaching to an absolute transcript of the original , 4 A STUDY OF HAMLET .
... language of Europe . The German translation of it , by Augustus William Schlegel , is considered by those most competent to form an estimate of its merits , as * approaching to an absolute transcript of the original , 4 A STUDY OF HAMLET .
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... language into French . The speci- mens given of it by the reviewer , including the soli- loquy in the beginning of the Third Act , and also the description of the manner of Ophelia's death , could not be surpassed . Among the great ...
... language into French . The speci- mens given of it by the reviewer , including the soli- loquy in the beginning of the Third Act , and also the description of the manner of Ophelia's death , could not be surpassed . Among the great ...
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... the exhibition of human nature , this unrivalled effort must continue to be the admiration of learned and unlearned , as long as the English language shall exist . " ACT FIRST . IN the opening scene of the Play 8 A STUDY OF HAMLET .
... the exhibition of human nature , this unrivalled effort must continue to be the admiration of learned and unlearned , as long as the English language shall exist . " ACT FIRST . IN the opening scene of the Play 8 A STUDY OF HAMLET .
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... language before he had heard anything of the appearance of his father's ghost . Among his confused resolves , that of feigning madness seems suddenly to have suggested itself , either as subsidiary to some equally obscure plan of ...
... language before he had heard anything of the appearance of his father's ghost . Among his confused resolves , that of feigning madness seems suddenly to have suggested itself , either as subsidiary to some equally obscure plan of ...
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... language of a bedlam - beggar ; and his speeches , when thus disguised , exhibit very truly and very curiously the constant effort required by a sane man to maintain the character of insane talk without taking frequent refuge in ...
... language of a bedlam - beggar ; and his speeches , when thus disguised , exhibit very truly and very curiously the constant effort required by a sane man to maintain the character of insane talk without taking frequent refuge in ...
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action actors addressed affection agitation appearance arras become Bernardo character conduct conversation dead Denmark discourse disorder disposition distraction doubt DOVER STREET dreadful EDWARD MOXON Elsinore England excitement exclaims expression father father's death father's ghost father's spirit feeling feigning madness forget Fortinbras friends grave grief GUIL Hamlet Hamlet's mind hath heart heaven Hecuba hell Horatio imagination impression insane interview Jephthah king and queen king's Laertes late look lord malady manner Marcellus marriage meditations mental merely mocking mother murder nature ness night Norway observation Ophelia Osric overmastered passion platform play players Polonius prince queen question reason reflections reply reproaches resolve revenge Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scarcely scene seems seen sent Shakspeare Shakspeare's soliloquy sorrow soul speak speech strange sudden suspicion sweet talk tell thee things THOMAS HOOD thou thoughts tion troubled uncle unhappy uttered watch whilst wild words
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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.