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" O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! "
Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ... - Page 150
1896 - 204 pages
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Tecumseh and the prophet of the West, an historical tragedy. The life and ...

George Jones - 1844 - 278 pages
...existence, but which is checked in contemplating the Ecclesiastical law of God,—viz.: " Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve...that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self slaughter !" The Spanish author translates it thus, — giving the latter idea a military construction,—viz.:...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...Lords, fyc. Polonius, and Laertes. Ham. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve 3 itself into a dew ; Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 4 'gainst self -slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all...
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Sketches from Life, Volume 3

Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 438 pages
...things." Thus Hamlet the instant he is alone gives vent to his weariness and distate of life — Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve...itself into a dew ; Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self slaughter. His total disregard of life he expresses to Horatio and Marcellus...
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Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign ...

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pages
...soliloquies, I confine myself to the two following, being different in their manner. Hamlet. Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve...not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and uaprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Pie on't! O...
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An Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Shakspere

William John Birch - 1848 - 570 pages
...from his first soliloquy, when he is left to himself after the above conversation. He says — Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve...Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! 0 God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world 1...
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Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by ...

Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...conscience in draughts of Rhenish, and Hamlet is left alone, to give full vent to his feelings : — 0, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve...that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self- slaughter! 0 Godl 0 God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seems to me all the uses of...
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The Indicator: A Literary Periodical Conducted by Students of ..., Volumes 1-3

1848 - 936 pages
...to die and enter the dark and unknown future, he cries in bitterness of spirit : — " O, that thls too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve...itself into a dew ! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter !" But his better jndgment, and his invincible will combine,...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...stones of Rome to rise and mutiny ! SHAKSPERE. HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS MOTHER'S MARRIAGE. OH that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve...Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! oh fie...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 264 pages
...heart, good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.. Hor. a. 5 s. 2 O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve...into a dew, or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon 'gainst selfslaughter. . Ham. a. 3 s. I Oh! my qffence is rank, it smells to Heaven ! it hath...
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Desultoria: The Recovered Mss. of an Eccentric

1850 - 230 pages
...during his speech — but he is gone — all are gone, save Hamlet — he soliloquizes : " O ! that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve...itself into a dew ; Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem...
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