 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....  The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 513by William Shakespeare - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 276 pages
...looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen 575 May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume...spirits,— Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds 580 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. More relative than this:—the play's the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 504 pages
...blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil ; and the devil hath power 575 To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps Out...grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing 580 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. 573. tent] rent FaF3F4. Jen. Steev. Var.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 266 pages
...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...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me : I 'll have grounds More relative than this : — the play 's the thing Wherein I 'll catch the conscience... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1892 - 300 pages
...players Play something like the murther of my father Before mine uncle : I '11 observe his looks ; 1 '11 tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I '11 have grounds 590 More relative than this ; the play 's the thing Wherein I '11 catch the conscience... | |
 | 1964 - 158 pages
...uncle : 2 I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course.3 The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Curtain. [Exit.6 ò òî R. [2] Turning te face throne, but keeping : 13] Op itage 0. [4] Hit voice... | |
 | John Draper, John William Draper - 1966 - 276 pages
...subject, a summary that was really needless for his audience, for the other world was very close to them: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Professor Bradley discounts this passage as expressing no genuine doubt of Hamlet's because, he says,... | |
 | Larry D. Bouchard - 1989 - 300 pages
...bitterness, my sorrows to completion. But the hand that struck me was none but my own. — Oedipus the King1 The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. —Hamlet, 11.2* The literary theme of this book may be stated in a single clause: tragedy is a method... | |
 | Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 pages
...reminds me of a rather profane blunder that an Actor is said to have made in Hamlet; as follows:— "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and...As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me too—dammel" 5 "The devil," that time, was too "potent" for him; and the mental association of his... | |
 | John Wray Young - 1967 - 180 pages
...players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I* il tent him to the quick; if he but blench, I know my...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me; Tll have grounds More relative than this—the play's the thing Wherein Tll catch the conscience of... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape — yeah, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy As...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (71) Act III, Scene 2: This speech, as well known as any in all dramatic literature, is often treated,... | |
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