 | Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell, (iv.iv) army through Denmark. Yet the quicksilvery hotspur we expect to meet completely surprises us... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. (4.4.48-53) 'Delicate and tender' was the title given to Babylon in the Genevan version of the Bible,58... | |
 | Jean Lorrah - Life on other planets - 1984 - 292 pages
...supplied. "Shakespeare understood the warrior mentality. 'Witness this army, of such mass and charge,/ Exposing what is mortal and unsure/ To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,/ Even for an eggshell.' " He paused, then added, "Or as a Klingon poet might put it, Captain, any excuse for a fight." "Cynicism,... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. (46-53) As the trailing clause reveals, Hamlet feels admiration and scorn for Fortinbras, a man of... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...invisible event — Unlike Hamlet, who thinks too precisely on the unknown future, Fortinbras exposes what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Does Hamlet apprehend in himself the old fear of death, of what waits beyond the grave, that inhibits... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...profit but the name.' The more Hamlet says how noble it is to 'find quarrel in a straw' and to expose what is mortal and unsure 'To all that fortune, death and danger dare, / Even for an eggshell', the more his own phrasing ('quarrel in a straw', 'Even for an egg-shelf) enables us to hear an undercurrent... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Free trade - 1993 - 678 pages
...and tender prince, 10 Whose spirit with divine ambition puff d Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...egg-shelL Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument , But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
 | Eugenio María de Hostos - Poetry - 1994 - 552 pages
...delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I, then, That... | |
 | Martha Tuck Rozett - Drama - 1994 - 234 pages
...unlikely to pause over the nuances of Hamlet's characterization of Fortinbras as one who "expose[s] what is mortal and unsure / to all that fortune, death and danger dare, / Even for an eggshell" (4.4.53-54). Where a sophisticated reader familiar with Elizabethan rhetoric might recognize the mock-heroic... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. 1v, iv, 46-53 In a seemingly half-conscious attempt to debunk what he otherwise admires, Hamlet finds... | |
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Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 
