 | E. G. Nisbet - 1991 - 384 pages
...2002 To my family, for whom this book is written This goodly frame, the Earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving, how express and admirable!... | |
 | Jeffery W. Fenn - 1992 - 300 pages
...wherefore I know not—lost all of my mirth . . . this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (159) Like Hamlet, Claude is aware that "the time is out of joint" and that he is caught up in an inexorable... | |
 | Jeffery W. Fenn - 1992 - 300 pages
...wherefore I know not—lost all of my mirth . . . this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (159) Like Hamlet, Claude is aware that "the time is out of joint" and that he is caught up in an inexorable... | |
 | John Keith Hargreaves - 1992 - 440 pages
...review of theory and experiments. Advances in Space Research. 8, 51 (1988). 4 The neutral atmosphere ...this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IF Scene (ii) 4.1 Vertical structure 4.1.1 Nomenclature of atmospheric... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - 1991 - 334 pages
...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, look...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving,... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson - 1993 - 264 pages
...heavens which are, however, quite different. Notice: This most excellent canopy, die air, look you; diis brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. And this: And that inverted bowl they call the sky Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die,... | |
 | A. David Moody - 1994 - 412 pages
...earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave 294 o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted...the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? In the dizzying play of wit in the first sentence - a vision of the universe,... | |
 | Edward Warren - 1994 - 102 pages
...firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What...the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Shakespeare, Hamlet Act II, Scene II The question is posed brilliantly by Hamlet,... | |
 | Homer, George Chapman - 1998 - 650 pages
...measured by his closing off of that universe that was beckoning others to mingle with its constellations: This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this...the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? 'See, for instance, Ennis Rees, The Tragedies of George Chapman (Harvard, 1954).... | |
 | James Rodger Fleming - 1998 - 209 pages
...Twentieth Century 107 Historical Perspectives on Climate Change Introduction Apprehending Climate Change This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable!... | |
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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,... 
