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" Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed... "
The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ... - Page 79
by Elizabeth Inchbald - 1808
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The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage

Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...mixture of regret, fear, laughter, and disgust: Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! 3 1 knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
..."Yorick," replies the old fellow, and tosses the skull to Hamlet. Hamlet: Let me see. (Turns the skull) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...skull, the King's jester. HAMLET This? CLOWN 1 E'en that. HAMLET Let me see. [He takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of...fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have...
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The Classical Monologue, Men

Michael Earley, Philippa Keil - 1992 - 164 pages
...father. Taking the skull, Hamlet muses on its significance. HAMLET. Let me see. (He takes the skull.) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge1 rises...
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A Humane Case for Moral Intuition

Benjamin S. Llamzon - 1993 - 398 pages
...entertainers. Think of a court clown in olden days, who was usually a favorite of the royal family. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow...a thousand times. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your jibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment...
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Competition Piece

John Sherman Wells - 1993 - 52 pages
...(Introducing the scene.) Auditions. (BLACKOUT. STAGE LIGHTS up.) IKE. (Holding a shrunken head by the hair.) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times and how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it....
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And Flights of Angels

Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...Yorick's skull, the King's jester. HAMLET. This? CLOWN. E'en that. HAMLET. Let me see. (Takes the skull.) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of...fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have...
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Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into Brain Function

Stanley Finger - 2001 - 484 pages
...studying a human skull inspired William Shakespeare (1564-1616) to write Hamlet's famous soliloquy: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow...fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times." © & & C ЛЕ V e R. e Л/ OR,Origins of Neuroscience A History of Explorations into Bratn Function...
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 pages
...the first instance, the mixture of profoundly imaginative feelings contained in Hamlet's epitaph for Yorick— I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite...fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have...
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Some Necessary Questions of the Play: A Stage-centered Analysis of ...

Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 pages
...consequences he draws are in the vein of the satirist, Hamlet affirms his childhood affections for the jester. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is! my gorge rises...
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