 I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air,...  The dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Page 38by William Shakespeare - 1814Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 734 pages
...sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,(3T) this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, —...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave o'erhanging firmament, — this majestic roof, fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears...congregation of vapours. 'What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving, how express and admirable !... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...indeed, It goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air,...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapourw." 3 Chapter 43, On the dangerous Prevalence of Imagination. their limbs, some to labour under... | |
 | Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 224 pages
...indeed it goes so [heavily] with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. — Hamlet, act 2, scene 2 to suggest. One of the most striking metaphors we will remember from A Piece... | |
 | Helmut Richard Niebuhr - Religion - 1991 - 144 pages
...themselves are full of the great illusion. To Hamlet this goodly frame, the earth, seems . . . a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. (II, ii) while of himself he says: I am very proud,... | |
 | E. G. Nisbet - Nature - 1991 - 384 pages
...2002 To my family, for whom this book is written This goodly frame, the Earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving, how express and admirable!... | |
 | Jeffery W. Fenn - Drama - 1992 - 300 pages
...wherefore I know not—lost all of my mirth . . . this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (159) Like Hamlet, Claude is aware that "the time is out of joint" and that he is caught up in an inexorable... | |
 | Jeffery W. Fenn - Drama - 1992 - 300 pages
...wherefore I know not—lost all of my mirth . . . this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. (159) Like Hamlet, Claude is aware that "the time is out of joint" and that he is caught up in an inexorable... | |
 | John Keith Hargreaves - Nature - 1992 - 440 pages
...review of theory and experiments. Advances in Space Research. 8, 51 (1988). 4 The neutral atmosphere ...this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IF Scene (ii) 4.1 Vertical structure 4.1.1 Nomenclature of atmospheric... | |
 | Paul Watzlawick - Psychology - 1993 - 132 pages
...indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look...congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty, in form and moving! How express and admirable in action!... | |
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