 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...war, war for pleasure, for the pure glory of it. But then out jumps another non sequitur soliloquy: How all occasions do inform against me And spur my...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'... | |
 | Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott - Science - 1999 - 612 pages
...and Comets 535 Appendix B: Expansion of the Disturbing Function 539 References 557 Index 577 Preface What is a Man, If his chief good and market of his...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, iv We are living in a new age of discovery. The major voyages... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - Philosophy, Ancient - 2000 - 180 pages
...protest also against the view that chaos rules and that cosmos is an illusion. As Hamlet protested, What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV. iv, 33-40) It may be argued, of course, that our "large discourse" is an evolutionary development... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...necessary use of a God-given capacity, as the commitment that makes us human: What is a man, If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. (4.4.34-40) He goes on to justify Fortinbras, and take him as an example, with only the twisted... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...Wilt please you go, my lord? I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. [Exeunt all except HAMLET] How all occasions do inform against me. And spur my...or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom 129 vortlbraS 'eH, Qlt peylt. [me]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time 256 Hamlet Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure,...or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward - I do not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...fashion and the mould of form, Th' observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down! Ophelia— Hamlet III.ii How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my...thinking too precisely on th' event, A thought which, quarter 'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 222 pages
...half-despairingly asserts, in very characteristic terms, the value of reason: What is a man, If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. (rv, 4) Surely, he asks, man should not be just a beast? Surely he must use his reason? And Hamlet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...inform against me, And spur my dull revenge. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time 35 Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he...godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Now whether it be 40 Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event — A thought which,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...inforni against me And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his rime Be but to sleep and feed ? A beast, no more. Sure...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 Of thinking too precisely on... | |
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How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not... 
