 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the 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 with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have...  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Page 591811Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...tent him to the quick; if he but blench,0 I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this : d The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 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...hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and, perbjft. Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...uncle's villany, he says, ' The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath power T* assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melanclioly, Abuses me to damn me.' This doubt of the grounds on which our purpose is founded, is as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 pages
...uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him 5 to the- quick ; if he do blench c, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil: and...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 the... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 556 pages
...misgivings and the words of Hamlet recurred to me — The spirit that I have seen, May be a deril, and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape;...very potent with such spirits), Abuses me to damn me. were the words by which mine ear was startled, "that to be the eldest son of an eldest son, the accident... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick J ; if he do blench $, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power ' Destruction. t Unnatural. J Search his woundl. $ Shrink or start' To assume a pleasing shape yea,... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 590 pages
...wanting to the wonderful truth of the poet's conception than to make the victim confess his own weakness. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil liath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, At... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...uncle's villany, he says, ' The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T" assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, Abuses me to damn me.' This doubt of the grounds on which our purpose is founded is as often the effect,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him 5 to the quick; if he do blench,6 I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and...with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this 7 : The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 490 pages
...uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent himi to the quick ; if he do blench, 2 I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To .i-.-t.unr a pleasing shape ; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness, and my melancholy (As he is very... | |
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