 | Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1888 - 636 pages
...under a fearful presentiment, nearing the end, " the sunset of life gives him mystical lore." — " We defy augury : there's a special providence in the...now, yet it will come: the readiness is all : since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes. Let be." For belief in a ghost has been... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1889 - 198 pages
...you are not fit. And the answer shows the courage and fidelity and trust of this noble prince : — We defy augury : there's a special providence in the...not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all. He felt the failure of his life darkening into total eclipse. Yet Hamlet's failure was nobler than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 824 pages
...their repair hither, and say, you are not fit. Ham. Not a whit, we defy augury ; there 'sa special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...now, yet it will come: the readiness is all : Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes ? Enter KING, QfEEN, LAERTES, Lords,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...guilt. 283 Johnson: works, IX. 115. (Oxford edition, 1825.) AUGURY. 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. 284 Shakespeare : lIamlet. Act v. Sc. 2. AUTHORITY — see Judges, Office, Old Age, Submission. Power... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...shapes onr ends, Hough-hew them how we will. c. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. We defy angury: 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. d. Hamlet. Act V. So. 2. God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold, ' We must not tear the close-shut... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...reaches his aim, the perfection of his life, only to die. . . . we defy augury: there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...now, yet it will come - the readiness is all. Since no man owes of aught he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? (Hamlet) The play can thus be seen as a... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...dominated by an anguished, almost scriptural concern for right times and wrong times: "There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all" (5.2.220-2). Human duration is a temporal continuum in which right acts are kairoi linking past and... | |
 | Robert McCrum - 1998 - 248 pages
...had saved me from its direst outcome. [5] My New Life 1-5 August We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves, knows aught, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. William Shakespeare, Hamlet,... | |
 | Tom Stoppard - 1998 - 226 pages
...not think how ill all's here about my heart. But 'tis no matter. 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. (LAERTES enters with OSRIC bearing swords followed by CLAUDIUS and GERTRUDE with goblets.) Come on,... | |
 | William W. Demastes - 2005 - 216 pages
...then does Hamlet fulfill his "destiny." The turn occurs late, in Act V, scene ii: "There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." By discarding a sense of excluded middle, by being a not being, by giving up his rationalist will to... | |
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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, what is't to leave betimes? 
