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" I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have... "
The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the ... - Page 161
by William Shakespeare - 1818
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The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 5

Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 pages
...my father, Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick: if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me, to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this ; the play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...father, Before mine uncle : 1*11 observe his looks; П1 t ru t him: to the quick; if be do blench $, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this : The play's the thing. Wherein I'll catch the conscience...
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The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots ...

Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...sceptical disposition subsequently betrays him into unreasonable doubts, he pauses on the reflection, " The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." * Among other horrible projects attributed to malignant spectres, were those of weakening the bodies,...
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The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 2

Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 344 pages
...sceptical disposition subsequently betrays him into unreasonable doubts, he pauses on the reflection, " The spirit, that I have seen, . May be a devil : and...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." * Among other horrible projects attributed to malignant spectres, were those of weakening the bodies,...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 29

1824 - 456 pages
...Act il. Sç. 1. the Spirit that 1 bave seen May be the Devil — and the Dev'l hath pow'r T'assume a pleasing shape — yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. Burton. Anat. of Melan. p. 50. (4to ed.) — — — of all other, melancholy persons are most subject...
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Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: Or, An Attempt to Trace Such ...

Samuel Hibbert - 1825 - 500 pages
...or the result of some diabolical art operating through the medium of his fantasie or imagination — The spirit that I have seen May be a devil ; and the...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." Accordingly the regular plot of the drama turns upon the test to which the veracity of the apparition...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...lent him to the quick ;t if he do lilench, $ I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, May he a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this : The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...father, Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him78 to the quick; if he do blench79, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...very potent with such spirits), Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative80 than this : The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...father, Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him 78 to the quick; if he do blench 79 , I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...very potent with such spirits), Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative 80 than this: The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience...
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Observations on the importance in purchases of land and in mercantile ...

George Farren (resident director of the Asylum life office.) - 1826 - 126 pages
...waver and timidly debates— The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power T assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this. Hamlet, in the first act, describes—all the uses of this...
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