 | 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, Henry T. Steele - 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... | |
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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... 
