 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...Othello's Til see before I doubt', with Horatio's far calmer speech (after he has actually 'seen'): 'Before my God, I might not this believe/ Without the sensible and true avouch/ Of mine own eyes' (Hamlet, i, i, 56-8). 'Alvin Kernan also remarks on this similarity in his suggestive (if selfadmittedly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...? You tremble and look pale. Is not this something more than fantasy ? What think you on't? HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. MARCELLUS Is it not like the King? HORATIO As thou art to thyself. 60 Such was the very armour he had... | |
 | Charles A. Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett - Drama - 1991 - 248 pages
...appear." He soon has evidence to the contrary, and his own expression of amazement marks his reversal: "Before my God, I might not this believe / Without the sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes." It is the same movement from doubt to conviction that Shakespeare puts Brabantio through. The reversal... | |
 | John O'Meara - Hamlet - 1991 - 120 pages
...Horatio's response to the Ghost which he communicates at first to Marcellus and then to Hamlet: HOR.: Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. MAR.: Is it not like the King? 35 Hör.: As thou art to thyself. (Ii 56-59) Hon.: ...each word made... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...Horatio? You tremble and look pale. Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on't? HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. MARCEL. Is it not like the King? HORATIO As thou art to thyself. Such was the very armour he had on,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 164 pages
...possible scepticism in the reader or spectator. In Hamlet, after seeing the Ghost, Horatio says: Afore my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.12 Centuries later, the narrator of Conrad's Lord Jim speaks of '[t]his astounding adventure,... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...Horatio? You tremble and look pale. Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on't? HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. MARCELLUS Is it not like the King? HORATIO recovers with some help from BARNARDO's hip flask. HORATIO... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...scene (1.2.257-58). And the skeptical Horatio, when converted to belief, swears, "Before my God, 1 might not this believe / Without the sensible and true avouch /Of mine own eyes" (1.1 .59-6 1 ) . By the end of the opening act, eye and ear are polarized within a single character,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 148 pages
...tremble and look pale. Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on't? 45 HORATIO Afore my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of my own eyes. MARCELLUS Is it not like the king? HORATIO As thou art to thyself. Such was the very armour... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...something more than fantasy? What think you on't? (1.1.56-58) And Horatio, swearing by God, agrees: Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. (1.1.59-61) Horatio contradicts himself. Even as he proclaims that his belief rests on the witness... | |
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How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale; Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on 't? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. 
