Hamlet Travestie: In Three Acts, with Burlesque Annotations After the Manner of Dr. Johnson and Geo. Steevens and the Various Commentators

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Sherwood, Neely and Jones, and J. M. Richardson, 1817 - 109 pagina's

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Pagina 36 - And it's oh! dear! what can the matter be? Dear! dear! what can the matter be? Oh! dear! what can the matter be?
Pagina 53 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Pagina 85 - not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolv'd at last." " I pr'ythee, what ? " sayes he. " I' faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Lattin spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
Pagina 104 - ... his custody." The importance attached to the pursuit in centuries past was far greater, and the laws severer than those applied to any sport of the present age. A man of rank seldom stirred from his house without a falcon on his wrist : it was an emblem that distinguished him from his vassal ; and it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the pursuit began to decline.
Pagina iv - ... exercise of the ordinary Princely quota. Thus to intrude upon the notice o/TouR MAJESTY, may, by the world at large, be considered presumptuous ; but let it be remembered, that " a Cat may look at a King ;" and I trust that I shall not be charged with any sinister motive in soliciting YOUR MAJESTY'S protection for the following Work, when I openly declare that I cannot boast of the felicity of caring five farthings for YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY, and that, to the best of my belief, YOUR MAJESTY does...
Pagina 71 - How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun.
Pagina 2 - tis common: all that live must die— So blow your nose, my dear, and do not cry. Hamlet. Aye, Madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems there such a mighty fuss with thee ? Hamlet.
Pagina 3 - I'd give if a sure way I knew, How to thaw and resolve my stout flesh into dew ! How happy were I if no sin was self-slaughter ! For I'd then throw myself and my cares in the water. , Derry down, down, down, derry down. How weary, how profitless, — stale, and how flat, Seem to me all life's uses, its joys, and all that : This world is a garden unweeded ; and clearly Not worth living for — things rank...
Pagina 23 - When a man becomes tir'd of his life, The question is, " to be, or not to be ?" For before he dare finish the strife, His reflections most serious ought to be. When his troubles too numerous grow, And he knows of no method to mend them, Had he best bear them tamely, or no ? — Or by stoutly opposing them end them ? Ri tol de rol...

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