...of Hamlet causes much mirth,1 the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended,...last, that exposes affectation to just contempt.' To examine this variety is beyond our scope. I have been content to indicate how the play should be...

...time in continual succession, exhibiting various forms of life and particular modes of conversation The conduct is perhaps not wholly secure against objections....action is, indeed, for the most part, in continual progression, but there are some scenes which neither forward nor retard it. ...The poet is accused...

...madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended,...the last that exposes affectation to just contempt. It may be convenient here to leave the Doctor for a moment and turn to the consideration of a passage...

...madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended,...The action is indeed for the most part in continual progression, but there are some scenes which neither forward nor retard it. Of the feigned madness...

...would make a long tale. The scenes are interchangeably diversified with merriment and solemnity. . . . The conduct is perhaps not wholly secure against objections....The action is indeed for the most part in continual progression, but there are some scenes which neither forward nor retard it" (pp. 1010-11). But interesting...

...adding, in grandiloquent maudlin, "the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended ;...last, that exposes affectation to just contempt." So that, in defiance of poor Ophelia's eloquent lamentation over " Th' expectancy and rose of the fair...

...madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fill* the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended,...the first Act chills the blood with horror, to the Fon in the last, that exposes affectation to just contempt,** As a specimen of the great difference...