 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...real ? They are as real as our own thoughts, Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is...of reflection, and thought himself " too much i' th j sun;" whoever has seen the golden lamp of day dimmed by envious mists rising in his own breast, and... | |
 | 1818 - 784 pages
...real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is...the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself " loo much i' th' sun ;" whoever has seen the golden lamp of day dimmed by envious mists rising in... | |
 | 1836 - 596 pages
...being palpably brought before us. Why 1 Because its reality is in the mind. " It is tee who are Hamlet. Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy through his own mishaps, or those of others,—whoever has borne about with him the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself ' too... | |
 | 1837 - 568 pages
...our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is ire who are Hamlet. Whoever has hecome thoughtful and melancholy, through his own mishaps or those of others: whoever has home about •with him the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself " too much i' th' sun :"... | |
 | Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 pages
...it to ourselves, because we know and feel it to be applicable, for as Hazlitt has finely observed, " Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy, through...brow of reflection, and thought himself ' too much i'the sun ;' whoever has seen the golden lamp of day dimmed by envious mists rising in his own breast,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is...through his own mishaps or those of others : whoever has horne about with him the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself ' too much i' th' sun ;' whoever... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...real t They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is tre who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is...has become thoughtful and melancholy through his own mishups or those of others ; whoever has borne about with him the clouded brow of reflection . and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Thcir reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is...that of history. Whoever has become thoughtful and melaneholy through his own mishaps or those of others; whoever has borne about with him the clouded... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their realiiy is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth, which is above that of history. Whoever has become tlmughtful and melancholy through his own mishapa or those ol others ; whoever has borne about with... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...history. Whoever has become tlinupjitful and melancholy through his own mishaps or those ol oihcrs ; whoever has borne about with him the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself 'too much i' ih' sun;' whoever lias seen the golden lamp of day dimmed by envious miete rising in his own breast,... | |
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Hamlet is a name ; his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What, then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts ; their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet. This play has a prophetic truth,... 
