 | Charles Harlen Shattuck - 1564-1616 - 1969 - 382 pages
...down as before. Horatio asks if it is a custom. Hamlet turns front and looks up: "Ay, marry-is't; but to my mind — though I am native here and to the manner born — it is a custom more honored in the breach (slight pause) than the observance." He raises his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO Is it a custom? HAMLET Ay, marry, is't. But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...hear the sounds of the court's carouse. Horatio asks: "Is it a custom? HAMLET: Ay, marry is't. / But to my mind, though I am native here / And to the manner born, it is a custom / More honour'd in the breach than the observance. / This heavyheaded revel east... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, 25 But 2m N z xZ , [`Y e 2 t J h ] v !!5S born, it is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. (I, iv) NAWM-1 26 I am thy father's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO Is it a custom? HAMLET Ay marry is't; But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.22 This heavy-headed revel east... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO V/O Is it a custom? HAMLET V/O Ay, marry is 't, But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 612 pages
...feasting going on below, Horatio asks Hamlet if it is a custom. Hamlet replies: Ay marry is't, But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. (Liv.13-16) 22. It may be obvious... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...belief in political obedience arising from habit, as opposed to consent through a "social contract." And to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616)... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. 10196 Hamlet But a fair son, and I am but a barren stock. 3280 (to troo born - it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. 10197 Hamlet Something is rotten... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - History - 2000 - 532 pages
..."others of minor importance" in the suburbs, according to Baedeker (1872, 34). 12. Hamlet 1.4.l4-16: "But to my mind, though I am native here / And to the manner born, — it is a custom / More honoured in the breach than the observance." 1 3. This allusion, one... | |
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But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. 
