 | Howard Riell - 2002 - 561 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some saY that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantLE clad, Walks... | |
 | Howard Riell - 2002 - 561 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some saY that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantLE clad, Walks... | |
 | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...in Cymbeline," Studies in English Literature 41 (2): 300. 4. Compare what Marcellus says in Hamlet: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious, is that time. (1.1.158-64) 5. Frances Yates, Shakespeare's Last Plays: A... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leap'd them over. Gloucester—2 Henry IV IViv Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...spirit. CT Onions cites the fullest passage (Hamlet, I, i, 163) in the sense 'to strike with disease': No spirit dares stir abroad, The nights are wholesome;...strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, while in the two instances from Lear (m, iv, 60 and n, iv, 166) Onions glosses the word as 'blasting,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...it is again in Hamlet, where, according to Marcellus, in the period around Christmas, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. (I, i, 161—4) Furthermore, the sinister figure of Hecate, tn-form... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 160 This bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. Marcellus It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 165 This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The... | |
 | New York Bar Association - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 200 pages
...cock. Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, 165 This bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch bath... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 2004 - 406 pages
...Hamlet's father, the officer Marcellus reflects on a Christmas legend: It faded on the crowing of a cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad. (1.1.138-42). This "legend" may have been entirely Shakespeare's invention. 14. Saint... | |
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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,... 
