Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William ShakespeareW. Wilkins, 1736 - 52 Seiten |
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... Stage , and Hamlet's Reflection thereupon , are all Circumstances certainly inferiour to the preceeding Part . BUT as we fhould be very cautious in find- ing Fault with Men of fuch an exalted Genius as our Author certainly was , left we ...
... Stage , and Hamlet's Reflection thereupon , are all Circumstances certainly inferiour to the preceeding Part . BUT as we fhould be very cautious in find- ing Fault with Men of fuch an exalted Genius as our Author certainly was , left we ...
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... Stage , without making them ridiculous or too horrible , and the Whole too improbable and too fhocking to Men's Understandings . ACT II . Polonius and Reynoldo , and afterwards . Ophelia . POLONIUS'S Discourse to Reynoldo is of a good ...
... Stage , without making them ridiculous or too horrible , and the Whole too improbable and too fhocking to Men's Understandings . ACT II . Polonius and Reynoldo , and afterwards . Ophelia . POLONIUS'S Discourse to Reynoldo is of a good ...
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... Stage . Although our Imagination will bear a great Degree of Illufion , yet we can never fo far impofe on our Knowledge , and our Senfes , as to imagine the Stage to contain an Army : Therefore in fuch a Cafe , the Recital of it , or ...
... Stage . Although our Imagination will bear a great Degree of Illufion , yet we can never fo far impofe on our Knowledge , and our Senfes , as to imagine the Stage to contain an Army : Therefore in fuch a Cafe , the Recital of it , or ...
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... Stage , & c . is very well imagined , and was the best way of fatisfying the Re- queft of his deceased Friend . And he acts in this , and in all Points , fuitably to the manly , honeft Character under which he is drawn throughout the ...
... Stage , & c . is very well imagined , and was the best way of fatisfying the Re- queft of his deceased Friend . And he acts in this , and in all Points , fuitably to the manly , honeft Character under which he is drawn throughout the ...
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... Stage with the Honours due to his Birth and Merit . I SHALL close these Remarks with fome general Obfervations , and fhall avoid ( as I have hitherto done ) repeating any Thing which has been faid by others , at least as much as I ...
... Stage with the Honours due to his Birth and Merit . I SHALL close these Remarks with fome general Obfervations , and fhall avoid ( as I have hitherto done ) repeating any Thing which has been faid by others , at least as much as I ...
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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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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 33 - England ; which design, had it taken effect upon his life, he never could have revenged his father's murder.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.