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Updated: June 2, 2025
To Thackeray's truthful remark that there is never so poor an Irishman that he has not a still poorer countryman as a hanger-on, it may be added that when an Irishman is not a borrower he is almost certain to be a lender the advice of Polonius being abhorrent to the spirit of a free-and-easy, happy-go-lucky people.
The young of her acquaintance fled to her for help in need, and she gave them no hard words, but generally more counsel than comfort always, however, the best she had, which was of Polonius' kind, an essence of wise selfishness, so far as selfishness can be wise, with a strong dash of self-respect, nowise the more sparing that it was independent of desert.
And that therefore, like Hamlet, it will stab Polonius behind the rustling curtain, thinking him the king, and perhaps like Hamlet add: "Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune." Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
"I had to keep my wits sharp. I was only a youngster, and I had to do with men as crafty and as silly as old Polonius. I was sent to Labrador. That was not a life for a Christian. Once a year a ship comes to the port, bringing the year's mail and news from the world.
This idea of dotage encroaching upon wisdom, will solve all the phenomena of the character of Polonius. If the dramas of Shakespeare were to be characterised, each by the particular excellence which distinguishes it from the rest, we must allow to the tragedy of HAMLET the praise of variety. The incidents are so numerous, that the argument of the play would make a long tale.
When they present a gift, it has either rhyme or reason to it. Their letters are not passed about to be read by the family. Hamlet was a Sulphite; Polonius a Bromide. Becky Sharp was sulphitic; Amelia Sedley bromidic. So we might follow the line of cleavage between the two groups in Art, Religion and Politics.
I know he would not be a wolf, But that he sees the Romans are but sheep: He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. But I, perhaps, speak this Before a willing bondman. Hamlet. My lord, you played once in the university, you say? Polonius. That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor. Hamlet. And what did you enact? Polonius. I did enact Julius Caesar.
That sounds a little like Polonius," said David, stopping suddenly, "but there is no humor in it! One great lesson in the history of them all is not to be neglected: that through them also runs the great Law of Evolution, of the widening thoughts of men; so that now, in civilized countries at least, the churches persecute to the death no longer.
Before Hamlet fell into the melancholy way which has been related he had dearly loved a fair maid called Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius, the king's chief counselor in affairs of state. He had sent her letters and rings, and made many tenders of his affection to her, and importuned her with love in honorable fashion; and she had given belief to his vows and importunities.
But when he dragged for the body, it was not the king, but Polonius, the old officious counsellor, that had planted himself as a spy behind the hangings. 'Oh me! exclaimed the queen, 'what a rash and bloody deed have you done! 'A bloody deed, mother, replied Hamlet, 'but not so bad as yours, who killed a king, and married his brother. Hamlet had gone too far to leave off here.
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