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" What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more! Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 300
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Gcorge Turbervile. What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed PA beast ; — no more. Sure, He, that made us with such...gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust* in us unused. Sh. Ham. iv. 4. The grey-ey'd morning braves me to my face, And calls me sluggard....
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Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors, Part 1

William Lowes Rushton - 1867 - 104 pages
...whole mannor on Ms lack. — BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii. Sec. 2, Mem. 3. Subs. 3. Hamlet. Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse,...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Act iv. Sc. 4. Gewiss, der uns mit solcher Denkkraft schu f Voraus zu schaun und riickwarts,...
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Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...war, war for pleasure, for the pure glory of it. But then out jumps another non sequitur soliloquy: How all occasions do inform against me And spur my...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'...
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Solar System Dynamics

Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott - Science - 1999 - 612 pages
...and Comets 535 Appendix B: Expansion of the Disturbing Function 539 References 557 Index 577 Preface What is a Man, If his chief good and market of his...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, iv We are living in a new age of discovery. The major voyages...
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Bound to Act: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction

Valeria Wagner - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...discourse should be anything but idle — he is consequently perplexed at finding himself idling with it: Sure he that made us with such large discourse. Looking...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event...
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Remembering Heraclitus

Richard G. Geldard - Philosophy, Ancient - 2000 - 180 pages
...protest also against the view that chaos rules and that cosmos is an illusion. As Hamlet protested, What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV. iv, 33-40) It may be argued, of course, that our "large discourse" is an evolutionary development...
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Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes

R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...necessary use of a God-given capacity, as the commitment that makes us human: What is a man, If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. (4.4.34-40) He goes on to justify Fortinbras, and take him as an example, with only the twisted...
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Orphic song with Daedal harmony: die "Musik" in Texten der englischen und ...

Pia-Elisabeth Leuschner - Comparative literature - 2000 - 286 pages
...Verbindung von verweigerter Gegenwartsimmanenz, Sprache und Vernunft deutlicher werden läßt: „[...] he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking...That capability and god-like reason / To fust in us unused." („Hamlet". In: The Norton Shakespeare (Anm. 267) S. 1729, IV.iv, v. 9.26-29). Dieser Effekt...
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Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time 256 Hamlet Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure,...or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward - I do not...
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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul

Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...man: What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? And he answers: A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (4.4.33-39) To be a man means not only to be alive, but to have "such large discourse" as to be able...
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