...action laid upon anon I unfit tor the performance of it. In this view tlin whole nierescdnslo me to ho composed . An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar. which should have li.irnn only pleasant flower* in il« bosom : the r..ols expand, the jar is shivered ! A lovely, pure...

...tendency too exclusively subjective. " To me," wrote Goethe, " it is clear that Shakspere meant ... to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it," etc. [see p. 15 above]. This is one half of the truth ; but only one half. In several of the tragedies...

...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant, in the present •case, to represent the effects...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 pleasant flowers in its...

...a tendency too exclusively subjective. "To me," wrote Goethe, "it is clear that Shakspere meant ... to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it," etc. [see p. 15 above]. This is one half of the truth ; but only one half. In several of the tragedies...

...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. Here is an oak-tree planted in a costly vase, which should have borne only pleasant flowers iu its...

...words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. Here is an oak-tree planted in a costly vase, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its...

...Wilhelm Meister, and in which the following oft-quoted words occur, " To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...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 pleasant flowers in its...

...spite, That I was ever born to set it right," — and then proceeds to argue that Shakespeare meant " to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it, and that in this view the whole play is composed. " There is," he says, " an oak - tree planted in...

...whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant in the present case to represent the effect of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance...this view the whole piece seems to me to be composed. There is an oak tree, planted in a costly jar, which should have GOKTHE'S HAMLET. 109 borne only pleasant...

...tendency too exclusively subjective. " To me," wrote Goethe, " it is clear that Shakspere meant ... to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul- unfit for the performance of it," etc. [see p. 15 above]. This is one half of the truth ; but only one half. In several of the tragedies...