Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William ShakespeareW. Wilkins, 1736 - 52 էջ |
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... best in Criticism , the most exempt from the Faults I mention ; for his Papers upon Mil- ton's Paradife Loft , I look upon as the true Model for all Criticks to . follow . follow . In thofe we fee the Beau- ties and [ v ]
... best in Criticism , the most exempt from the Faults I mention ; for his Papers upon Mil- ton's Paradife Loft , I look upon as the true Model for all Criticks to . follow . follow . In thofe we fee the Beau- ties and [ v ]
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... best Writers , I fhall particularly dwell up- on those which they have the least insisted on , which will , however , put every Thing he has produc'd in its true and proper Light . He had ( beyond Difpute ) a inoft unbound- ed Genius ...
... best Writers , I fhall particularly dwell up- on those which they have the least insisted on , which will , however , put every Thing he has produc'd in its true and proper Light . He had ( beyond Difpute ) a inoft unbound- ed Genius ...
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... best Edi- tion of this Poet , which has yet appear'd . ' I would not have Mr. Pope offended at what I fay , for I look upon him as the greatest Ge- nius in Poetry that has ever appear'd in Eng- land : But the Province of an Editor and a ...
... best Edi- tion of this Poet , which has yet appear'd . ' I would not have Mr. Pope offended at what I fay , for I look upon him as the greatest Ge- nius in Poetry that has ever appear'd in Eng- land : But the Province of an Editor and a ...
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... best that can be made of it , ( as Mr. Theobalds has done it ) it is but of very obfure Diction , and is much too long ; for a very short Moral is to be drawn from it . Page 248 . Enter the Ghoft . WE now are come to the fublimeft Scene ...
... best that can be made of it , ( as Mr. Theobalds has done it ) it is but of very obfure Diction , and is much too long ; for a very short Moral is to be drawn from it . Page 248 . Enter the Ghoft . WE now are come to the fublimeft Scene ...
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... best Way ,, and what , methinks , the King ought moft to have wished for , was to have had him confin'd ; and this was an ex- cellent Reason to give the People for fo doing . THE Queen feems to have no Design or Artifice in relation to ...
... best Way ,, and what , methinks , the King ought moft to have wished for , was to have had him confin'd ; and this was an ex- cellent Reason to give the People for fo doing . THE Queen feems to have no Design or Artifice in relation to ...
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Abfurdity alfo almoſt Amlethus appear Audience Author Beauties becauſe Befides Behaviour beſt Caufe cauſe Character Circumſtances Comick Confequence Converfation Courſe Critick Cuſtom Death Defign defire Denmark Deſcription Diction Dignity Dramatick elfe exprefs'd faid fame Father Fault feems fent ferve fhall fhews fhocking fhort fhould Filial Piety fince fome fpeak Friendſhip ftill fuch a Piece fuitable fuppofe furely Gerutha Ghoft Ghoſt give greateſt Hamlet himſelf Horatio Impofition juſt King Laertes Laertes's laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Madneſs Majeſty moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary nefs never Norway obferve Occafion Ophelia Paffions Perfons Play pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poet poffible Polonius Prince Hamlet Prince's Profe Puniſhment racter raiſe a Laugh Reaſon Repreſentation repreſented Revenge Romeo and Juliet Scene ſeem Sentiments Sequel Shakespeare's Sophocles Spectators Spectre Speech ſtrong take Notice Taſte Tenderneſs thefe themſelves Theobalds theſe Lines Thing thofe thoſe Tragedy Tragick Writers Ufurper Underſtandings uſe virtuous whole
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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.