 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...There is, too, in a different kind, Horatio's fine description of Hamlet's danger in the Ghost scene: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. ... (i. iv. 69) — a warning certainly justified, if we remember... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...Lilliputians, an eminence which is a sickly, dizzying state. Horatio limns Hamlet's fate fairly true: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...unknown. Shakespeare, in his usual manner, keeps as near as may be within concretely normal terms: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive... | |
 | Herbert Blau - Performing Arts - 2002 - 378 pages
...Tom rushes at Peter. They roll to the ground in an embrace. The tape is audible. They struggle. TOM: And for my soul, what can it do to that? Being a thing immortal as itself? They fight silently, deeply. The tape continues, memory leaping back, widening the abyss between the... | |
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What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness... 
