ShakespeareJ. Cape, 1961 - 448 pages |
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Page 237
... question we do not know the answer . But not to know the answer to that question is in a sense to have answered it . We fear the unknown futurity ; and that fear gives efficacy to conscience , which bids us suffer evil and not risk ...
... question we do not know the answer . But not to know the answer to that question is in a sense to have answered it . We fear the unknown futurity ; and that fear gives efficacy to conscience , which bids us suffer evil and not risk ...
Page 255
... question . And the supreme felicity of Hamlet is that the fifth act bodies forth and makes ' sensation ' of the essential unanswer- ability of the question . The nobleness of life , as manifest in Hamlet's death and his act of final ...
... question . And the supreme felicity of Hamlet is that the fifth act bodies forth and makes ' sensation ' of the essential unanswer- ability of the question . The nobleness of life , as manifest in Hamlet's death and his act of final ...
Page 261
... question : Whether it is nobler to suffer evil , or to risk death by resisting it ? With the received text and the question - mark , he puts the question ( if we follow Dr. Johnson ) in an ignominious way which he subsequently ...
... question : Whether it is nobler to suffer evil , or to risk death by resisting it ? With the received text and the question - mark , he puts the question ( if we follow Dr. Johnson ) in an ignominious way which he subsequently ...
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