 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 of William Shakspeare - Page 425by William Shakespeare - 1838Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...be a coinage of the brain, " a • subjective bodiless creation, which ecstacy is very cunning in." "The spirit that I have seen May be a devil ; and...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me." It is with deliberation, therefore, that he seeks for a means of testing his condition, and with eagerness... | |
 | James Martineau - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1845 - 214 pages
...of her most unprejudiced and distinguished favourites. Hear it then in the following lines : — ' The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. fll have grounds More relative than this? The greatest interpreter of nature has given us here, her... | |
 | James Martineau - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1845 - 188 pages
...distinguished favourites. Hear it then in the following lines;— ' The spirit that I have seen Hay be a devil, and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. I'tt have grounds More retative than this.' The greatest interpreter of nature has given us here, her... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 438 pages
...wanting to the wonderful truth of the poet's conception than to make the victim confess his own weakness. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the...weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with suck spirits, Abuses me to damn me. For Burton says, "Agrippa and Lavater are persuaded that this humour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...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. The spirit, that I...this ' : The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit, ACT III. SCENE I.— A Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS,... | |
 | John Mason Neale - Apparitions - 1847 - 232 pages
...truth of the narrator. I should have thought, as Hamlet did, " The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." And I remember that Lavater tells a story, which would lead to the same conclusion. A friend of his,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...father, Before mine uncle ; I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him 4 to the quick; if he do blench, 5 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, •...Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative 6 than this. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. 1 The firet... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...natal hour — О be these gifts forever mine ! 121 HAMLET. COBTISUED FROM PAGE 99. "Тик spirit I have seen May be a devil ; and the devil hath power...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...miraculous organ. * » » » 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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He is uncertain whether the supernatural proceeds from heaven or hell, from God or the devil ; doubts... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pages
...mine ! 1843. Hamlet. 121 HAMLET. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 99. " THE spirit I have seen May be a devil ; anu the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape, yea,...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him... | |
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