 | 1865 - 820 pàgines
...subjective bodiless creation, which ecstacy is very cunning in." "The spirit that I have seen May be a devil ; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me." It is with deliberation, therefore, that he seeks for a means of testing his condition, and with eagerness... | |
 | James Martineau - 1845 - 188 pàgines
...distinguished favourites. Hear it then in the following lines;— ' The spirit that I have seen Hay be a devil, and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. I'tt have grounds More retative than this.' The greatest interpreter of nature has given us here, her... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1847 - 232 pàgines
...even if I had been persuaded of the truth of the narrator. I should have thought, as Hamlet did, " The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." And I remember that Lavater tells a story, which would lead to the same conclusion. A friend of his,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pàgines
...him 4 to the quick; if he do blench, 5 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, • May be a devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative 6 than this. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. 1 The firet... | |
 | William John Birch - 1848 - 570 pàgines
...miraculous organ. * » » » The spirit, that I have seen, May be the devil : and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and, perhaps, Out of...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He is uncertain whether the supernatural proceeds from heaven or hell, from God or the devil ; doubts... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pàgines
...these gifts forever mine ! 121 HAMLET. COBTISUED FROM PAGE 99. "Тик spirit I have seen May be a devil ; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pàgines
...mine ! 1843. Hamlet. 121 HAMLET. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 99. " THE spirit I have seen May be a devil ; anu the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape, yea,...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 400 pàgines
...truth of the idea of Hamlet which I have before put forth. Ib. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. See Sir Thomas Brown : I believe that those apparitions and ghosts of departed persons are not the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pàgines
...looks; I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...me : I'll have grounds More relative than this: The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. ACT III. HYPOCRISY. We are oft to blame... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pàgines
...I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil ; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. ACT III. SCENE I. A Room in... | |
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ, I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course.... 
