 | 1839 - 674 pages
...Ophelia. We believe that he did love her, and devotedly ; that he utters no extravagance when he says : " I loved Ophelia ! Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up that sum." We have not space to enter into the details, but shall content ourselves with examining... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...Ophelia. I was the more deceived. (3.1.114-19) In the graveyard scene Hamlet declares to all and sundry, I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (5.1.269-71) It seems impossible to discern the genuineness of his affection for Ophelia from Hamlet's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.' '/ loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum -.' 'I'll rant as well as thou.' (Act 5 scene 1 ) 17 Hamlet seems less tortured at this stage of the... | |
 | Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor - Civilization, Modern - 2000 - 436 pages
...calls the duel "this brothers' wager" (5.2.249). This would make him loving brother to Ophelia as well: "Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum" (5.1.264-66). 4o. Samuel Schoenbaum itemizes John Shakespeare's debts and losses as well as his sale... | |
 | Lidia Yuknavitch - American literature - 2000 - 182 pages
...myself to, to the walls, the fences, the whole architecture, I was screaming, he loved me, he did, forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up the sum, m x I/I and an ambulance came, and men standing in the yard would say later that crazy bitch... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...hand! King Pluck them asunder! Queen Hamlet! Hamlet! All Gentlemen! Horatio Good my lord, be quiet.58 Hamlet Why, I will fight with him upon this theme...no longer wag! Queen O my son, what theme? Hamlet I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum!... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...hand. KING Pluck them asunder. QUEEN Hamlet, Hamlet! ALL Gentlemen! HORATIO Good my lord, be quiet. HAMLET Why, I will fight with him upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer wag. 243 Pelion (a mountain in Thessaly, as are Olympus, 1. 244, and Ossa, 1. 273; when the Titans fought... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...love to Ophelia's face ("I loved you not" [3.1.118-19]), he now declares it over her corpse: I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (5.1.264-66) One's actions demonstrate one's love. Much as Claudius lured... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 2001 - 632 pages
...with his mother as a type of woman's frailty; and his last thought of her is no repudiation: "I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. " In how different a tone rings out the last despairing cry of Troilus: "O Cressidl 0 false Cressidl... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...Horatio Good my lord, be quiet. [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave] Hamlet Why, 1 will fight with him upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Gertrude O my son, what theme? Hamlet I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all... | |
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I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. 
