 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 Dramatic Works - Page 426by William Shakespeare - 1831Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...father, Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him§ to the quick ; if he do blench, |l I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...melancholy (As he is very potent with such spirits), * A dreamy, stupid fellow. t Destruction, t Unnatural. $ Search him. Abuses me to damn me : I'll have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...father, Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him§ to the quick ; if he do blench, |l I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...melancholy (As he is very potent with such spirits), « A dreamy, stupid fellow. t Destruction. t Unnatural. } Search him. I Shrink -or start. Abuses me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...father, Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him§ to the quick ; if he do blench, |l < I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May...melancholy (As he is very potent with such spirits), * A dreamy, stupid fellow. t Destruction, t Unnatural. $ Search him. • H Shrink or start. Abuses... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 350 pages
...discourteously, kept them up at night, and prevented their sleeping on their posts. Hence l thus HAMLET :' * THE spirit that I have seen May be a devil ; and the...As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me too — damn-me ! ' This is quite different from the usual reading, and is as much an ' improvement... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 388 pages
...discourteously, kept them up at night, and prevented their sleeping on their posts. Hence ' thus HAMLET :' 'Tns spirit that I have seen May be a devil; and the devil...As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me too — damn-me ! ' This is quite different from the usual reading, and is as much an ' improvement... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...father, Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him6 to the quick ; if he do blench,7 ck to me. 1 Cif. Mrthinks, there is much reason in...his savings. 2 Cif. If'thou consider rightly of the melaucholy (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me : 111 have grounds More relative... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...Play something like the murder of 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....thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King — Shakspeare. ON THE FUNCTIONS OF MAN. -Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in -divers... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...Shakspeare's own attestation to the truth of the idea of Hamlet which I have before put forth. Ib. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil : and...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. See Sir Thomas Brown : — I believe that those apparitions and ghosts of departed persons are not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle : I '11 observe his looks ; I '11 tent him to the quick ; if he do blench, I know my course....perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy (As lie is very potent with such spirits), Abusis me to damn me. I '11 have grounds More relative than... | |
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