Hamlet, the disillusioned idealist, continues with the motif when he, disheartened, declares: [...] the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave oer hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire- why, it appeareth nothing to me ...

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