 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 the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, (As he...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 63by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
 | James Martineau - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1845 - 188 pages
...distinguished favourites. Hear it then in the following lines;— ' The spirit that I have seen Hay be a devil, and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. I'tt have grounds More retative than this.' The greatest interpreter of nature has given us here, her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. 111 have these players Play something like the murder...the Castle. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCBANTZ, and GUILDENSTEBN. King. And can you, by no drift of conference, Get from him, why he puts... | |
 | John Mason Neale - Apparitions - 1847 - 232 pages
...truth of the narrator. I should have thought, as Hamlet did, " The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." And I remember that Lavater tells a story, which would lead to the same conclusion. A friend of his,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...father, Before mine uncle ; I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him 4 to the quick; if he do blench, 5 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, •...Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative 6 than this. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. 1 The firet... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...natal hour — О be these gifts forever mine ! 121 HAMLET. COBTISUED FROM PAGE 99. "Тик spirit I have seen May be a devil ; and the devil hath power...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...miraculous organ. * » » » 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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He is uncertain whether the supernatural proceeds from heaven or hell, from God or the devil ; doubts... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pages
...mine ! 1843. Hamlet. 121 HAMLET. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 99. " THE spirit I have seen May be a devil ; anu the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape, yea,...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 400 pages
...Shakspeare's own attestation to the truth of the idea of Hamlet which I have before put forth. Ib. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil : and...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. See Sir Thomas Brown : I believe that those apparitions and ghosts of departed persons are not the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no...SCENE I. A Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, PoLomus, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. King. And can you, by no drift of conference, Get... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. ACT III. HYPOCRISY. We are oft to blame in this. 'Tis too much prov'd, — that,'with devotion's visage,... | |
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