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" 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 131
by William Shakespeare - 1867
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The Klingon Hamlet

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,...
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Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

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...
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The Tragedie of Julius Caesar

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...
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Rosencratz and Gildenstern are Dead by Tom ...

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...
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Byron and Shakespeare

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...
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The Imperial Theme

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....
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The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History

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...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

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...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 33

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...
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Shakespeare and Machiavelli

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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