Hamlet: An Historical and Comparative StudyUniversity of Minnesota, 1919 - 75 pages |
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Page 72 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone 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...
Page 20 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, " This thing 's to do," Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do 't.
Page 23 - Speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies : such a sight as this Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Page 43 - A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
Page 20 - 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 4 - Sit Medea ferox invictaque, flebilis Ino, Perfidus Ixion, lo vaga, tristis Orestes.
Page 25 - ... and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain ? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! \Exit.
Page 61 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't; — and so he goes to heaven: And so am I reveng'd ? That would be scann'd : A villain kills my father; and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.
Page 48 - ... that those apparitions and ghosts of departed persons are not the wandering souls of men, but the unquiet walks of devils, prompting and suggesting us unto mischief, blood, and villainy; instilling and stealing into our hearts that the blessed spirits are not at rest in their graves, but wander solicitous of the affairs of the world.
Page 22 - But, when it has been shut long enough, we remember that where there is so much smoke, there must be some fire...