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... Prince's invocation to God to still the storm , in the third Act , would pass for piety did he not jumble God and Lucina together . But we have cited a sufficient sample of the play . To the end of it ludicrous junctions are presented ...
... Prince's invocation to God to still the storm , in the third Act , would pass for piety did he not jumble God and Lucina together . But we have cited a sufficient sample of the play . To the end of it ludicrous junctions are presented ...
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... PRINCE OF DENMARK . Had Shakspere never drawn but the character of Hamlet , as it now stands , and left all his other creations religious , he would have stamped himself as once a sceptic . Hallam recognises in our author the ' censurer ...
... PRINCE OF DENMARK . Had Shakspere never drawn but the character of Hamlet , as it now stands , and left all his other creations religious , he would have stamped himself as once a sceptic . Hallam recognises in our author the ' censurer ...
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... Prince being a sceptic . We find that when Hamlet was produced before the Parisian public , in something like his ... Prince's ' insanity . ' But such should observe , that madness , like the creation of clowns in other plays , is the ...
... Prince being a sceptic . We find that when Hamlet was produced before the Parisian public , in something like his ... Prince's ' insanity . ' But such should observe , that madness , like the creation of clowns in other plays , is the ...
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... prince and his companions , there will be little necessity to press further upon his notice the full summary of their characteristics in our epitome . One instance may be cited , from among many , of the credit our author derives from ...
... prince and his companions , there will be little necessity to press further upon his notice the full summary of their characteristics in our epitome . One instance may be cited , from among many , of the credit our author derives from ...
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... Prince , Poins , and Pistol , still continue their essays in profanity , and the sensual Knight remains their unholy exemplar . Not merely the details , but the essentials of Christianity are the themes of his flippancy . Perhaps in no ...
... Prince , Poins , and Pistol , still continue their essays in profanity , and the sensual Knight remains their unholy exemplar . Not merely the details , but the essentials of Christianity are the themes of his flippancy . Perhaps in no ...
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Page 258 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 460 - That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome ; He bears too great a mind : but this same day Must end that work the ides of March begun, And whether we shall meet again, I know not. Therefore, our everlasting farewell take : — For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Page 434 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 170 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole?
Page 419 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 472 - No more, but e'en a woman ; and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks, And does the meanest chares.*— It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them, that this world did equal theirs, Till they had stolen our jewel.
Page 250 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time ; And, by the necessary form of this, King Richard might create a perfect guess.
Page 186 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king: The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 360 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 161 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.