 | Martin John Spalding - Reformation - 1860 - 508 pages
...Christianity restored to its original purity ! CHAPTER V. THE REFORMATION IN SWITZERLAND— ZURICH. " The spirit that I have seen May be a devil ; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." — Shalcspeare. The Beformation in Switzerland more radical than that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...uncle : 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 lie is very... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1861 - 914 pages
...: I '11 observe his looks ; I '11 tent hin.it1 to the quick ; if he do blench, t I know my course. niel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how do 1 ho To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and, perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, (As he is very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him§ to the quick ; if he do blench, |l 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 is very... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Dana - Philosophy - 1862 - 320 pages
...the intervention of evil spirits, as expressed by some of our poets. Thus, in Hamlet : "The spirit 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 is very potent... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 pages
...mine uncle. I'll observe his looks ; I'll cut 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 is very... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1864 - 498 pages
...mine uncle : 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 is very... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Biography - 1871 - 468 pages
...Touching this dreadful sight twice seen of us." At the end of the second act Hamlet himself says, " 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 is very potent... | |
 | Julian Charles Young - Actors - 1871 - 394 pages
...obscure passages. The following Charles Kean gave me as a specimen of his inventive faculty : — ' 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 is very potent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 344 pages
...mine uncle : I '11 observe his looks ; I Ml 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 is very... | |
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To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of... 
