 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...  A Selection from the Writings of Henry R. Cleveland: With a Memoir - 105 페이지저자: Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 384 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | James Joyce - 1998 - 1060 페이지
...theorizes that Hamlet's character renders him inadequate to the task he faces; the play thus 'represent|s| the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it'; of Hamlet himself he remarks: 'a lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of... | |
 | James L. Machor, Philip Goldstein - 2001 - 424 페이지
...l1809-111; it was Goethe who, more memorahly than any English writer, descrihed the play as a story of "the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it," a story in which "There is an oak tree planted in a costly jar, which should have horne only pleasant... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 232 페이지
...which its admirers were apt to make. To Wilhelm at any rate it was ' clear that Shakespeare meant ... to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it. ... A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero,... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 2004 - 122 페이지
...passage that is so often cited as Goethe's own theory: To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant ... to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it ... There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar. which should have borne only pleasant flowers in... | |
 | 1835 - 1058 페이지
...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. Au oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom;... | |
 | Edited by W. Turner - 454 페이지
...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 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... | |
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