 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Business & Economics - 1989 - 518 pages
...means of support were available. 1.251a This is probably a reference to Hamlet, Act IV. Scene iv: . . . What is a man If his chief good and market of his...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused . . . 1.255a 15° CAR.II. c.7. 'An Act for the Encouragement of Trade', 1663. This Act stated... | |
 | Ludwig Schajowicz - Drama - 1990 - 400 pages
...cuarto acto, en que Hamlet envidia la acometividad de Fortimbras y se ve a sí mismo como un cobarde: How all occasions do inform against me And spur my...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whe'r it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the... | |
 | James Redmond - Drama - 1990 - 250 pages
...than a beast? By act 1v, scene iv, as Hamlet ponders Fortinbras' army, the idea is less paradoxical: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (1v, iv, 33-8) The scholastic echoes of this speech make clear that the calculation of Elsinore is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...please you go, my lord? 30 HAMLET I'll be with you straight; go a little before. [Exeunt all but Hamlet. How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 4,4 Of thinking too precisely... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...man was, Zurowski thought. The question is still, for this Wittenberg student, how can I act nobly? What is a man If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Then why does Hamlet not act? Is he sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought? Now whether it be... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...brother's blood. Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? (Ill, iii) 35 V 7 _ wq _ . ǹ V <r ) # DN ] } x7 Y { 4 ? ` = C # ء 0 ,v ד 0 7 unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'... | |
 | Robert C. Solomon - Philosophy - 1993 - 360 pages
...divine in comparison with human life . . . reason, more than anything else, is man. In Shakespeare: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. In Goethe, "That glimmer of divine light— man calls it Reason." And in Immanuel Kant: Our existence... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...what it is to be a man is similarly muddy. Man is distinguished from beast by his inquiring intellect. What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV.iv.33-39) Yet, though bestial oblivion is a possible source of inaction, it is not a plausible... | |
 | Carla Waal, Barbara Oliver Korner - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 334 pages
...to each and every man the greatest good; such a life as yours must be, would, I think be glorious. What is [a] man If his chief good, and market of his...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.14 One of my friends, rather an old lady and quite intelligent, has used all her influence,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1825-1895) British biologist. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species," Science and Culture (1881). 6 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, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 4, sc. 4,... | |
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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... 
