 | Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 224 pages
...indeed it goes so [heavily] with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. — Hamlet, act 2, scene 2 to suggest. One of the most striking metaphors we will remember from A Piece... | |
 | Helmut Richard Niebuhr - Religion - 1991 - 144 pages
...themselves are full of the great illusion. To Hamlet this goodly frame, the earth, seems . . . a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. (II, ii) while of himself he says: I am very proud,... | |
 | Jeffery W. Fenn - Drama - 1992 - 300 pages
...wherefore I know not—lost all of my mirth . . . this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (159) Like Hamlet, Claude is aware that "the time is out of joint" and that he is caught up in an inexorable... | |
 | Jeffery W. Fenn - Drama - 1992 - 300 pages
...wherefore I know not—lost all of my mirth . . . this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (159) Like Hamlet, Claude is aware that "the time is out of joint" and that he is caught up in an inexorable... | |
 | John Keith Hargreaves - Nature - 1992 - 440 pages
...review of theory and experiments. Advances in Space Research. 8, 51 (1988). 4 The neutral atmosphere ...this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IF Scene (ii) 4.1 Vertical structure 4.1.1 Nomenclature of atmospheric... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving,... | |
 | Edward Warren - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1994 - 102 pages
...indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!... | |
 | Avner Falk - History - 1996 - 868 pages
...(Hamlet 2.2.317) illustrate this point beautifully: This godly frame, the Earth, seems to me a sterile promontory: this most excellent canopy, the air, look...golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is Man! How noble in reason!... | |
 | Wen-Shing Tseng, Jon Streltzer - Cross-Cultural Comparison - 1997 - 276 pages
...weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ... I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone...disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | Lewis Wolpert - Depression, Mental - 1999 - 216 pages
...have been totally consistent with the Elizabethan conception of a melancholic man: I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone...disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, - this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
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... this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. 
