 There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom; the roots expand, the jar is shivered. A lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero...  Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Pagina 287door Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 733 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pagina’s
...common avoca tions, and any of the onerous and vexatious duties of life were to him as " an oak tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers m its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered." It is scarcely probable that any combination... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pagina’s
...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1842 - 349 pagina’s
...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pagina’s
...other characters. In his fine critique upon this play, he remarks, " To me it is clear that Shakspere meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...view, the whole piece seems to me to be composed. There is an oak planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only flowers in its bosom ; the roots... | |
 | Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 456 pagina’s
...other characters. In his fine critique upon this play he remarks, " To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...view, the whole piece seems to me to be composed. There is an oak planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only flowers in its bosom ; the roots... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pagina’s
...exhibit as the result of his supernatural visitation. Goethe says, ': To me it is clear that bhakspere meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it." Coleridge, in speaking of that part of the scene after the interview with the ghost, in which Hamlet... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 pagina’s
...original character, and a paraphrase 01 his story, Goethe says, " To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it." And then follows the well-known and exquisitely beautiful flgure — " An oak-tree is planted in a... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pagina’s
...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it в clear that Shakespeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...upon a soul unfit for the performance of it. In this vie» the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pagina’s
...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it ia clear :hat Shakespeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects of a great action laid upon а soul vnft for ihe performance of it. In this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1855 - 492 pagina’s
...original character, and a paraphrase of his story, Goethe says, " to me it is clear that Shakspeare meant to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it." And then follows the well-known and exquisitely-beautiful figure — " An oak-tree is planted in a... | |
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