Hamlet's Note-bookHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 78 pages |
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Page 36 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors...
Page 4 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Page 64 - TOMB. Ask who lies here, but do not weep : He is not dead, he doth but sleep. This stony register is for his bones : His fame is more perpetual than these stones : And his own goodness with himself being gone, Sball live when earthly monument is none.
Page 19 - For then my thoughts, from far where I abide, Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Page 57 - He is a producer of conceptions and of sentences. The matter being explored he says to us : ' Such it is ; touch it not on that side ; it must be approached from the other.
Page 5 - The invention of speech or argument is not properly an invention: for to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know; and the use of this invention is no other but out of the knowledge whereof our mind is already possessed, to draw forth or call before us that which may be pertinent to the purpose which we take into our consideration.
Page 55 - And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient nations came, at length, into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks.
Page 62 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 42 - So runs the dedication. Who now are the author and adventurer thus indicated in cipher ? The author is Raleigh — y^ALTER RALEIG|| ; the adventurer, the mathematician Hariot, THOMAS HARioy, his friend and companion, allowed free access to him during his imprisonment in the Tower, which covers the date of the Sonnets, 1609. The means and leisure necessary to establish these assertions beyond cavil, and spread open the meaning of the sonnets, will probably never be at the command of the writer, but...