 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 348 pages
...mother: Look here, upon this picture and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls,...did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. (m. iv. j }) This is my reading. The first line is colloquial; the second meditative. The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 2002 - 214 pages
...Hamlet Look here upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 55 See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's curls,...herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, 6o A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...index? HAMLET Look here upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls,...threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 236 pages
...poetical and the mythological. He resorts to both in order to express his admiration for his father: See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls;...threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill . . . (H1, iv, 55-9) His verse has a range that Hotspur's cannot... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 pages
...I have lately quoted, is thought of as assuming 'the port of Mars'. We might compare Hamlet's: Sec, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls;...threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to... | |
 | Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 516 pages
...impossible male or masculine ideal against which Hamlet must judge himself is his murdered father. See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls,...threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill — A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 122 pages
...Renaissance scholar. explicitly and repeatedly associates his father with the classical world: See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls....threaten and command. A station like the herald Mercury. (III. iv. 55-8) So excellent a king. that was to this Hyperion to a satyr . . . My father's brother.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2005 - 900 pages
...the wall] Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow — Hyperion's...heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, 60 Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. This was your husband... | |
 | Marguerite A. Tassi - Art and literature - 2005 - 278 pages
...responses: Look here upon this picture, and on this. The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls,...threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a [heaven-]kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 430 pages
...when he speaks to his mother in the "closet" scene. Pointing to a picture of his father, he says: See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's curls,...did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. (III.iv.55-62) Hamlet thus sees his father as the embodiment of ideal manhood. By contrast,... | |
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Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury... 
