 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...with swinish phrase ao Soil our addition; and indeed it takes From our achievements, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So...guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin By the o'ergrowth -of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that... | |
 | Michael Steppat - Drama - 1980 - 646 pages
...illustration" of Hamlet's words which express, "the very theme of Antony and Cleopatra as a tragedy" (260-61): So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some...Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft "breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that... | |
 | Ned Lukacher - History - 1986 - 350 pages
...a problematic element in both the performance and the text. Here, then, is the speech in question: So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and indeed it takes From our achievements, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So,...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, 20 57 The form of plausive... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...Claudius and his habits but by an unnamed and unspecified female body that corrupts man against his will: So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), . . . these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being Nature's livery or Fortune's star,... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...This heavy headed revel east and west Makes us traduced, and taxed of other nations, They clip [call] us drunkards, and with Swinish phrase Soil our addition,...guilty, (Since nature cannot choose his origin) By their ore-grow'th of some complexion Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...and by Jorstad (1988). But this was centuries after Shakespeare had given this precise description: 'So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...solicitors. 20. addition title added to a man's name to denote From our achievements, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So...them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty 25 (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...either his father's situation or his own — decries "general" or popular judgments on "particular men": So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 612 pages
...habit" and the plural use of the word "manners", between "particular fault" and "general censure": This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduc'd...vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth, wherin they are not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion,... | |
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So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts... 
