 to be composed. An oak-tree is 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 - Página 285de Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 733 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 502 páginas
...the performance of it. In 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...lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the I strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden 1 which it cannot bear and must not... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 397 páginas
...the performance of it. In this view the whole play seems to me to be composed. There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only...of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him : the present is too hard. Impossibilities... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Boas - 1902 - 618 páginas
...for the performance of it. In this view the whole piece seems to me composed. There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only...burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away.' Here we have the root of the matter, the truth—but not the whole truth. Hamlet is too completely... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 792 páginas
...the performance of it. In this view the whole play seems to me to be composed. There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only...of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him : the present is too hard. Impossibilities... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1902 - 292 páginas
...him. Still, to some extent, it may be said that in the case of Brutus, as Goethe said of Hamlet, " a lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without...burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away." His failure as a political leader is brought into clear light by the contrast made between him and... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 474 páginas
...for the performance of it. In this view the whole piece seems to be composed. There is an oak tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only...its bosom : the roots expand, the jar is shivered. VANITAS ! VANITATUM VANITAS ! I'VE set my heart upon Nothing you see: Hurrah! And so the world goes... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 páginas
...concluding paragraph from the characterization of Hamlet in Ch. XIII. will give an idea of the whole : — "A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature without...burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him ; the present one is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 páginas
...concluding paragraph from the characterization of Hamlet in Ch. XIII. will give an idea of the whole : — “A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature without...burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present one is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not... | |
 | 1903 - 384 páginas
...physiological sense; it is merely the mental derangement of a noble, but not an heroic, nature, sinking beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. Coleridge attributes what he considers Hamlet's assumed eccentricity, after the ghost scene, to "the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 260 páginas
...concluding paragraph from the characterization of Hamlet in Ch. XIII. will give an idea of the whole : — "A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature without...burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him ; the present one is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not... | |
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