 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...all his mirth, forgone all custom of exercises. Still less can he tell why he delays: "I do not know Why yet I live to say, 'This thing's to do,' Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do 't" (4-4-43)Thus the mysteriousness of Hamlet's world is of a piece. It is not simply a matter of... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...the rival prince, as if to undermine the validity of the distinction between valour and cowardice: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...three parts coward — (39-43) The merciless truth suddenly rings out in the baffled I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do,' Sith I...have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't ... (43-46) and yet, until now he has done nothing: Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...fastidious cowardice, he concludes, must be the cause of his delay because if it is not, I do not know Why yet I live to say, "This thing's to do," Sith...cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't. (IV.iv.43-46) His derelict behavior brought painfully home to him by the contrast of Fortinbras's dynamic... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward — I do not know Why yet I live to say this thing's to do, Sith I have...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, HAMLET becomes smaller and smaller in frame as we continue... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...invisible, marks Fortinbras's quick passage over the stage in act 4, described by Hamlet in soliloquy. Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do', Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, 45 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, 50 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...analogies between himself and others. On the eve of that journey, he is still preoccupied with differences: Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this army...mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ***** How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my... | |
 | Eve Rachele Sanders - Drama - 1998 - 288 pages
...leading his troops into battle against Poland as the kind of "example" students were enjoined to follow: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event. Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...concentrating the man's problem' (Hamlet, p. 113). Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means 45 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, 5o Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
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Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't. 
