 | Periodicals - 1781 - 364 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impreffions of his mind to fhew themfelves in the midft of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia,...time, inftances of counterfeit madnefs and of real diftraction. In both plays the fame diftinction is obferved, and the falfe difcriminated from the true... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 260 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its ^reat subject; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequent'" glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his Jedge of which it was certainly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 380 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which,it was certainly... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 434 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject j but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to show themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject ; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to shew themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject; but it frequently glanced cm the wickIn two of Shakspeare's tragedies are introduced, at the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to show themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...as not to allow the reigning impressions of his mind to show themselves in the midst of his affected extravagance. It turned chiefly on his love to Ophelia, which he meant to hold forth as its great subject; but it frequently glanced on the wickedness of his uncle, his knowledge of which it was certainly... | |
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... the] moment, breaks forth into that extravagant rhapsody which he utters to Laertes. Counterfeited madness, in a person of the character I have ascribed to Hamlet, could not be so uniformly kept up, as not to allow the reigning impressions of his... 
