| 1877 - 798 pages
...reign of the Fourth William without any allusion to the political aspects of society, would have been like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. Mr Titmouse, launched into politics under the auspices of Messrs Quirk, Gammon, and Snap, naturally... | |
| 1851 - 830 pages
...nothing more than a few general remarks at the outset as to the way of finding it, would be something like " the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left out by desire," and I shall therefore insert here the outline of the projected steam navigation, and add... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1833 - 242 pages
...there were no politicians among us : the national theatre, to use a hackneyed but appropriate jest, is like the play of Hamlet, " with the part of Hamlet left out by the particular desire" — of the nobility! But as ftie censor will be retained, and politics will... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 pages
...there were no politicians among us: the national theatre, to use a hackneyed but appropriate jest, is like the play of Hamlet, " with the part of Hamlet left out by the particular desire" of the nobility ! But as the censor will be retained, and politics will still... | |
| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1867 - 1220 pages
...my difficulty in regard to Mr Nixon's motion, which seems to be a very plausible one, is, that it is like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. (Applause.) It is good so far as it goes, but it has left out the essential part. The objection to... | |
| 1853 - 666 pages
...of pauperism, and pertinently remarks that "a work on pauperism without treating on intemperance is the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out." The Reviewer introduces on this subject some valuable statements of fact. From a discourse by Bishop Potter,... | |
| 1844 - 676 pages
...sacrificial death and restored life of '• God's only begotten and wellbeloved Son." Surely this is very much like the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left out. We are not satisfied with some of the writer's doctrinal statements, and would recommend greater guardednese... | |
| 1862 - 394 pages
...pray God, a gentleman. An article on Thackeray without a comparison with Dickens, would to many look like the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left out. We have endeavoured thus far to stave off the comparison, but it is inevitable. Why it should be so... | |
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