 Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free,...  The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight - Page 43by William Shakespeare - 1856Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep...very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing ; no, not... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1861 - 524 pages
...and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? and all for nothing ! For Hecuba ? What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep...ear with horrid speech ; Make mad the guilty, and appall the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet... | |
 | 1873 - 618 pages
...had, he only describes him as doing what Shakespeare, through all his characters, invariably does : " He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears." And Hamlet himself immediately falls to, in a fashion that no " player " nnder the the sun could outstrip... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 404 pages
...distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit 1 And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What 's Hecuba...faculties of eyes and ears. — Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, like John-a-dreams,29 unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing ; no,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What's liecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her...very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, J .1 ki - John a-dreams, * unpregnant of my cause, [ a coward ? Who calls... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1862 - 688 pages
...and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothmg ! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep...and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears.t Talking one day, with John Philip Kemble, on the subject of his profession, Dr. Johnson inquired,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 pages
...and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba That he should weep...very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing ; no, not... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - 1986 - 286 pages
...description of a theatrical performance, fusing the actor's art with the Prince's actual grievance: What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for...amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. (11.2.554-60) It is the wishful ideal of a performance that produces visible moral effects such as... | |
 | John Wray Young - 1967 - 180 pages
...voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep...general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty, and appall the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - 1987 - 432 pages
...in a dream of passion, Could force his soul to his own conceit What 's Hecuba to him or he to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had...tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech . . . ("•"•54S-7! 553-7) The eloquence of the question should not drown out the violence of Hamlet's... | |
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