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Polonius Hamlet stabs him through the arras. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet] See : Concealment Polonius gives Laertes rules of conduct. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet] See : Counsel Polonius lurking behind arras, he is killed accidentally by Hamlet. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet] See : Eavesdropping Polonius spies on Hamlet and Gertrude. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet] See : Spying Polonius wordy, “wretched, rash, intruding fool.” [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]
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| Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentleman never applied for their restoration, but they retired into a little private repository, in an old desk, which Amelia Sedley had given her years and years ago, and in which Becky kept a number of useful and, perhaps, valuable things, about which her husband knew nothing. But if his father had lived to a good old age, and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive Hamlet's having married Ophelia, and got through life with a reputation of sanity, notwithstanding many soliloquies, and some moody sarcasms toward the fair daughter of Polonius, to say nothing of the frankest incivility to his father-in-law. This latter device was sometimes adopted at considerable violence to probability, as when Shakspere makes Falstaff bear away Hotspur, and Hamlet, Polonius. |
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