Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves,... The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.]. - Page 131by William Shakespeare - 1867Full view - About this book
| Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Hamlet Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence...he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c] Claudius Come, Hamlet,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special providence...yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?61 The Tragedie of Hamlet 217 the Foyles... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...and is, therefore, improper in the mouth of Cesar. 43. Will come, when it will come] Compare, Hamlet: 'If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come...aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes.' — V, ii, 231-235. — ED. 45. Augurers] WALKER (Crit., ii, 49): It seems possible that in this passage... | |
| Lloyd Cameron, Rebecca Barnes - 2001 - 116 pages
...their own insinuation grow. (Act V, Sc. ii, lines 57-9) Hamlet: We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (Act V, Sc. ii, lines 213-16) Hamlet: The rest is silence. (Act V, Sc. ii, line 352) Ambassador: And... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 pages
...mind dislike anything, obey it; I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Hamlet: Not a whit; we defy augury. There's a special providence...aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (V, ii, 222) The accent is exactly Byronic. 'It is no matter', 'Let be': Byron's own writings... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...before the end witness a profound acceptance of death : Not a whit, we defy augury: there 'sa special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...all : since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. (v. ii. 230) Here Hamlet is at peace, at last: at peace with death.... | |
| Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...choose between life and death. But if one faces providence, one has no choice. Hamlet says to Horatio: "Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special providence...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all" (Hamlet 5.2.165—68). Hamlet walks into the trap with the same lack of concern as Julius Caesar. I... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. Hamlet — Hamlet V.ii We defy augury: there's a special providence in the...yet it will come; the readiness is all: since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. Hamlet — Hamlet V.ii When remedies... | |
| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 240 pages
...*àßÌ5ÙÂéØÖØ* "' •  HAMLET'S SPECIAL PROVIDENCE ALAN SINFIELD Wc defy augury: there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...it will come - the readiness is all. Since no man owes of aught he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (Hamlet, v, ii, 210-16)" [God is] a Governor... | |
| John Alan Roe - 2002 - 238 pages
...greater feeling of equilibrium than at any time previously: Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all. (5.2.192-5) But earlier, as Hamlet prepares for the voyage to England, he speaks to his mother of the... | |
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