 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 504 pages
...forestal their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Ham. Not a whit; we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...will come; the readiness is all. Since no man, of 210 aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ? Let be. 205. obey it.] obey. Ff, Rowe, Knt.... | |
 | Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 292 pages
...committed to good, but recognises it as beyond himself. He submits his will to God: There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. (5.2.215-18) Since the sparrow was a familiar emblem of lechery, we may assume that Hamlet is referring... | |
 | Margaret L. Beard - 2002 - 128 pages
...live so that death doesn't make us feel cheated. I remember the lines from Hamlet There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. The readiness is all. The readiness has more to do with life than death. It has to do with knowing... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...providence, one has no choice. Hamlet says to Horatio: "Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...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... | |
 | Terry Mirll - 2001 - 268 pages
...different. Regret. Shakespeare's Hamlet said it much better than I could ever express: "There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...not now; yet it will come. The readiness is all." Or, in layman's terms, "You're gonna die, stupid, so deal with it!" For all my soapboxing, for all... | |
 | John F. Hayward - 2002 - 196 pages
...Horatio. Hamlet replies, Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of the sparrow. If it be now, Tis not to come; if it be not...not now, yet it will come — the readiness is all. "The Readiness Is All" is a good title for the wild horses picture. One has to be ready in the midst... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...be." — "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest." — "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all." — "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." — Shakespeare "Our senses, as our reason, are divine."... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 212 pages
...is not a direct deed of cruelty, and on his return to Denmark, it is in a condition of resignation:' If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...not now, yet it will come — the readiness is all.' He appears to be talking about his own death — but he is talking also about the death of Claudius... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 2003 - 252 pages
...moment when the actor has to strip away any sense of display, or contrivance, or self-consciousness: There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows of aught he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (vu 213-18) This fatalism is repeated... | |
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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. 
