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" I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. "
The North American Review - Page 663
edited by - 1868
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...with him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her ? King. O, he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him. Ham....
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...with him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her '. King. O, he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him....
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme? Ham. I lov'd Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her? King. O, he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him. Ham....
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I lov'd Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her ? King. O ! he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him....
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son ! what theme ? Ham. I lov'd Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. — What wilt thou do for her? King. O ! he is mad, Laertes. Queen. For love of God, forbear him. Ham....
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An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two Books

George Ramsay - 1843 - 574 pages
...not, Chaos is come again." Hamlet says to Laertes, who had been boasting of his fraternal love : / loved Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum.12 These lines serve to illustrate the excessive fervour of the affection. The following show the...
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An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamlet: Embracing a View of Hamlet's Character ...

Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 pages
...of her untimely death, and repelling this charge, Hamlet tells Laertes, with great energy, I lov'd Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. Throughout this remarkable scene, though the reflections, interwoven as they are with the spirit of...
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 4

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1843 - 614 pages
...himself even at Ophelia's grave, he merely utters, "What! the fair Ophelia!" and although he avows that " forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum," yet the speech is evidently a splenetic outpouring against Laertes, rather than the bursting of a lover's...
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pages
...of the most excruciating of his afflictions; for he tells us, and tells us truly, that " 'He' lov'd ny time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of bloud, as if the blo 'his' sum;" Act т. «с. 1. consequently what he suffers on this occasion, on this compulsory treatment,...
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1844 - 680 pages
...conduct over her grave he gives full expression to the sentiments he had really entertained for her : " I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers, Could not,...with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum." Since the above paper was written, I have met with an interpretation of Hamlet's conduct to Ophelia,...
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