Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity, Imbecility, and Suicide |
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... brain , dries up all the foolish , and dull , and crudy vapors which environ it ; makes it apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble , fiery , and delectable shapes ; which delivered o'er to the voice ( the tongue ) which is the ...
... brain , dries up all the foolish , and dull , and crudy vapors which environ it ; makes it apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble , fiery , and delectable shapes ; which delivered o'er to the voice ( the tongue ) which is the ...
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... brain , Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling - house , Doth , by the idle comments that it makes , Foretell the ending of mortality . " The peculiar action of certain poisons upon the blood , LEAR . MACBETH . 7.
... brain , Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling - house , Doth , by the idle comments that it makes , Foretell the ending of mortality . " The peculiar action of certain poisons upon the blood , LEAR . MACBETH . 7.
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... brain , and could be cured by medical means , aided by judicious care and man- agement : all which he points out as clearly as it could be done by a modern expert . Falstaff , when outwitted by the Merry Wives , says : - " Have I laid ...
... brain , and could be cured by medical means , aided by judicious care and man- agement : all which he points out as clearly as it could be done by a modern expert . Falstaff , when outwitted by the Merry Wives , says : - " Have I laid ...
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... brain ? " Looking again intently at the vision , and striving to comprehend it by the help of reason , now be- ginning to stagger from prolonged and excessive mental excitement , he exclaims : " I see thee yet , in form as palpable As ...
... brain ? " Looking again intently at the vision , and striving to comprehend it by the help of reason , now be- ginning to stagger from prolonged and excessive mental excitement , he exclaims : " I see thee yet , in form as palpable As ...
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... brain ? ” Nothing could be more true to nature than the mental disquietude and remorse of conscience in- cident to guilt , depicted by the dramatist in Act V. , Scene I. , where Lady Macbeth is first intro- duced to us as a somnambulist ...
... brain ? ” Nothing could be more true to nature than the mental disquietude and remorse of conscience in- cident to guilt , depicted by the dramatist in Act V. , Scene I. , where Lady Macbeth is first intro- duced to us as a somnambulist ...
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appears Bardolph bear blood brain brought Caliban called Cassio cause character of Hamlet characteristic choly clown conduct Cordelia Crab daughter delineation Desdemona disease Dogberry doth evident excitement exclaims exhibition Falstaff father fear feelings follows fool forest of Arden former scene furnish gentle genuine ghost give Goneril hath heart heaven honor human humor Iago imbecility insane intellectual Jaques Justice Shallow kind king knowledge lady Lady Macbeth language Launce Lear Leonato lord Macbeth madness malady Malvolio manifested matter medical psychologist melan melancholy mind mistress modern nature never noble observed once Ophelia Othello passion perceive Peter Quince physician Pistol play poet Polonius prince profound psychological regard replies says seems Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shallow Sir Andrew Ague-cheek sleep smile sorrow soul speak spirit Stephano supposed thee things thou thought tion truthfulness utter villain words worthy
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Page 190 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 70 - I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 77 - 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.
Page 199 - O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born ! Des. Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed ? Oth. Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, Made to write
Page 39 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, That can denote me truly : these, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play ; But I have that within, which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 57 - That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Page 52 - I have of late (but, wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises : and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you — this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 172 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known...
Page 19 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Page 201 - I'll smell it on the tree. — [Kissing her. 0 balmy breath, that dost almost persuade Justice to break her sword ! — One more, one more. — Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee, And love thee after. — One more, and this the last; So sweet was ne'er so fatal.