 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pages
...born to set it right! " In these words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present...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 bosom ; the... | |
 | 1835 - 1022 pages
...born to set it right.' " In these words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear, that Shakspeare meant in the present...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom;... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 pages
...give in a note, but I have ventured to introduce the concluding part of this admirable exposition. *' To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant in the present...view, the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom :... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1842 - 349 pages
...born to set it right ! " In these words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present...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 bosom ; the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 pages
...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakspearc meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 788 pages
...the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present ease, to represent the effects of a great action laid upon...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear !hat Shakespeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it. In ibis view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant, in the present cane, to represent the effects of a great action laid upon...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom... | |
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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, sinks beneath... 
