 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 god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Tragedy - Page 108by William Shakespeare - 1770 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Periodicals - 1852 - 652 pages
...written. There is one type of man that is not utterly frivolous, thus depicted by the great dramatist : ' WHAT is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed 1 a beast, no more. Sure, HE that made us with such large discourse, LOOKING BEFORE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...before. \ K.ri'iiii/ ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. How ail occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...thy elbow. MA iii. 3. REALITY. 'Tis in grain, Sir ; 'twill endure wind and weather. r.JV.i.4. REASON. 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...subordination, is the power that keeps peace and order in the world. C 2 94. Man not to le a, slave to sense. What is a man, If his chief good, and market' of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed 1 a beast, no more. Sure, He, that made us with such large discourses, Looking before,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...with it, and tries to reason himself out of it. " How all occasions do inform against me, 'And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to deep and feed ? A beast ; no more, Sore be that made us with such large discourse, ; Looking before... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1854 - 124 pages
...unfold His Meafure duly. i GENT. What's his Name and Birth ? i GENT. I cannot delve him to the Root." " What is a Man If his chief Good and Market of his Time, Be but to fleep and feed f A Beaft, no more ! Sure, he that made us with fuch large Difcourfe, Looking before, and after, gave... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...little before. [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and- GUILDEXSTES: How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1856 - 518 pages
...Hamlet exclaim in a subsequent part of the tragedy : " How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. * * * I do not know Why yet I live to say — 'this thing's to do,'... | |
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