Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William ShakespeareW. Wilkins, 1736 - 52 էջ |
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... have fucceeded in : In that refpect , our Neighbours have got the better of us ; altho ' we can justly boast of the compleateft • Effay on that Subject that has been pub- publifh'd in any Language , in which almost every Line [ vi ]
... have fucceeded in : In that refpect , our Neighbours have got the better of us ; altho ' we can justly boast of the compleateft • Effay on that Subject that has been pub- publifh'd in any Language , in which almost every Line [ vi ]
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... of Prefumption in me , that I did not think it reasonable to put my Readers to a greater Expence , by enlarging on the Subject , until I find that they themselves are not averse to it . This This is all I have to fay at prefent ; [ vii ]
... of Prefumption in me , that I did not think it reasonable to put my Readers to a greater Expence , by enlarging on the Subject , until I find that they themselves are not averse to it . This This is all I have to fay at prefent ; [ vii ]
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... Subject to lafh the Custom of Plays being acted by the Children of the Chapel , is not allowable in Tragedy , which is never to be a Satire upon any modern particular Foible or Vice that prevails , but is to be fevere upon Crimes and ...
... Subject to lafh the Custom of Plays being acted by the Children of the Chapel , is not allowable in Tragedy , which is never to be a Satire upon any modern particular Foible or Vice that prevails , but is to be fevere upon Crimes and ...
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... Subject , which is of the niceft Kind , is managed with great Delicacy , much beyond that Piece wherein Agamemnon's Death is revenged by his Son Oreftes , so much ad- mired by all the Lovers of Antiquity ; for the Punishment of the ...
... Subject , which is of the niceft Kind , is managed with great Delicacy , much beyond that Piece wherein Agamemnon's Death is revenged by his Son Oreftes , so much ad- mired by all the Lovers of Antiquity ; for the Punishment of the ...
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... Subject of too com- plicated a Nature to difcufs in these few Sheets . But I fhall juft hint two or three of my own ... Subjects , but yet car- ried on confiftently , and has no Merit but Na- ture , it will please the Vulgar ; by which I ...
... Subject of too com- plicated a Nature to difcufs in these few Sheets . But I fhall juft hint two or three of my own ... Subjects , but yet car- ried on confiftently , and has no Merit but Na- ture , it will please the Vulgar ; by which I ...
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Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Sir Thomas Hanmer Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1864 |
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Էջ 19 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Էջ 19 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Էջ 19 - Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; yet, within a month, Let me not think Frailty, thy name is Woman...
Էջ 11 - What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march?
Էջ 33 - England ; which design, had it taken effect upon his life, he never could have revenged his father's murder.
Էջ 21 - I have not mentioned the incest of her marriage, which is so obvious a provocation ; but cannot forbear taking notice, that when his fury is at its height, he cries, " Frailty, thy name is Woman...
Էջ 46 - Ophelia's madnefs was chiefly for her father's death, or for the lofs of Hamlet. It is not often that young women run mad for the lofs of their fathers. It is more natural to...
Էջ 49 - Denmark, as he had the dying voice of the prince. He in a few words gives a noble character of Hamlet, and ferves to carry off the...
Էջ 55 - And the more I read him, the more I am convinced, that as he knew his own particular Talent well, he study'd more to work up great and moving Circumstances to place his chief Characters in, so as to affect our Passions strongly, he apply'd himself more to This than he did to the Means or Methods whereby he brought his Characters into those Circumstances.
Էջ 4 - But the Province of an Editor and a Commentator is quite foreign to that of a Poet. The former endeavours to give us an Author as he is ; the latter, by the Correclnefs and Excellency of his own Genius, is often tempted to give us an Author as he thinks he ought to be.