 I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5761838Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 734 pages
...wherefore T know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of exercise ; and indeed it goes so heavenly with my disposition, that this goodly frame the Earth seems to me a sterill Promontory," &c. Now, in the former passage, "heavenly" is as certainly a misprint for •'... | |
 | Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 pages
..."air," the invisible substance surrounding the earth, as a stately "canopy," only to expound further "this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this...firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" (2.2.299-301). Hamlet's phrase conjoins the global circumference of "this goodly frame the earth" with... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 pages
...this goodly frame, the earth, seemed to him a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why it appeared no other thing ro him than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...the chapter entitled 'The Sick Soul', inevitably recall Hamlet's: I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, foregone all custom...brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof frened with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation... | |
 | Cesare Barbieri, Francesca Rampazzi - 2001 - 598 pages
...Hamlet is speaking of the earth, as he explains to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern his recent melancholy: indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that...majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...late lost all his mirth and forgone all practice ("custom") of sports. "[A]nd indeed," he continues: it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly...majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a... | |
 | Sidney Bloch, Bruce S. Singh - 2001 - 630 pages
...directions. Mood Disorders Isaac Schweitzer and Gordon Parker III I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, foregone all custom...the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 pages
...and queen molt no feather. I have of late - but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily...sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, 270 look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majes271 deal roof fretted with golden fire —... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 40 pages
...on 16 Hamlet's melancholy / have of latc, - bin wherefore I know not. - lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of 'exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily...seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopv, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...distinguished from baeta, trans., to improve, make better. 40. the Canopy] Compare Hamlet, II, ii, 311, 'This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament.' thy Miftris : Thou prat'ft,and prat'ft, ferue with thy tren- 50 cher : Hence. "Beats him away Enter... | |
| |
