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Hamlet
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Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
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- Nay, perhaps, it will be credited, that the villain went two days afterwards with some young ladies to the play of Hamlet; and with an unaltered countenance heard one of the ladies, who little suspected how near she was to the person, cry out, "Good God!"
Book 8Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
- As soon as the play, which was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, began, Partridge was all attention, nor did he break silence till the entrance of the ghost; upon which he asked Jones, "What man that was in the strange dress; something," said he, "like what I have seen in a picture.†
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- In this mistake, which caused much laughter in the neighbourhood of Partridge, he was suffered to continue, till the scene between the ghost and Hamlet, when Partridge gave that credit to Mr Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other.
Book 16Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
- And during the whole speech of the ghost, he sat with his eyes fixed partly on the ghost and partly on Hamlet, and with his mouth open; the same passions which succeeded each other in Hamlet, succeeding likewise in him.
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- And during the whole speech of the ghost, he sat with his eyes fixed partly on the ghost and partly on Hamlet, and with his mouth open; the same passions which succeeded each other in Hamlet, succeeding likewise in him.
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- Then turning his eyes again upon Hamlet, "Ay, you may draw your sword; what signifies a sword against the power of the devil?"
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- I would not be in so bad a condition as what's his name, squire Hamlet, is there, for all the world.
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- Our critic was now pretty silent till the play, which Hamlet introduces before the king.
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- —Upon Hamlet's taking up the skull, he cried out, "Well! it is strange to see how fearless some men are: I never could bring myself to touch anything belonging to a dead man, on any account."
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- "Indeed, Mr Partridge," says Mrs Miller, "you are not of the same opinion with the town; for they are all agreed, that Hamlet is acted by the best player who ever was on the stage."
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Definitions:
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(Hamlet as in: Shakespeare's play) Shakespeare often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man (Hamlet) seeks to avenge his father's murder (c. 1601)Famous quotations from Hamlet include:
This above all,—to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die,—to sleep;—
To sleep: perchance to dream:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, hamlet may refer to a community of people that is smaller than a village.