 | John Conolly - Hamlet (Legendary character) - 1863 - 224 pages
...tent him to the quick ; if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. From all this 'soliloquy we gain a deep insight of Hamlet's constitution and condition, of his disposition... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1864 - 498 pages
...guilty creatures sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions...SCENE I.— A Room in the Castle. Enter KING, QUEEN, POLONITIS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GulLDENSTERN. King. And can you, by no drift of conference Get... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1864 - 648 pages
...murder of my father, Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit, that I have...Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. [Exit. 149 ACT III. SCENE LA Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, POi.ONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRAUTZ, and GUILDENSTEBN.... | |
 | James Henry Hackett - 1864 - 376 pages
...deception to the eifect of an overheated imagination : — " The spirit that I have seen May be a deyil, and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." The confirmation his mind receives from the incident at the play, and the emotion that so conclusively,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 pages
...may 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...I'll have grounds More relative than this : — the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit ACT III. SCENE I.— A Room... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 pages
...blench, I know my course. 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...the conscience of the king. [Exit. ACT III. SCENE I. Elsinore. A room in the castle. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 724 pages
...tent him to the quick ; if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...SCENE I.— A Room in the Castle. Enter KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GuiLDENSTERN. King. JND can you, by no drift of circumstance, Get... | |
 | Denmark - 1964 - 158 pages
...tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course.3 The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Curtain. [Exit.6 т то R. [2] Turning te face throne, but keeping : 13] Op itage 0. [4] Hit voice... | |
 | John Draper, John William Draper - Drama - 1966 - 276 pages
...for his audience, for the other world was very close to them: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Professor Bradley discounts this passage as expressing no genuine doubt of Hamlet's because, he says,... | |
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I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he... 
