 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...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... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit] ACT III SCENE IA room in the... | |
 | Mark Balnaves, Peter Caputi - Social Science - 2001 - 257 pages
...1'll test him to the quick: 1f he but blench, 1 know my course. The spirit that l have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: 1'll have grounds More relative than this: - the play's the thing Wherein 1'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 405 pages
...may have tricked him: The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. (2.2.594-600) Hamlet, no longer willing to dare damnation (cf. 1.2.244-46; 1.4.39-44; 1.5.92-93), thinks... | |
 | Martin McQuillan - Philosophy - 2001 - 579 pages
...damnation. 'The spirit that I have seen', he reflects, May be a devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. (2.2,594-600) An analysis of the play as a record Hamlet's quest for the grounds on which to base an... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - Business & Economics - 2002 - 320 pages
...ghost into question: . . . The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T" assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. HAMLET (2.2, 600-605) The revenge strategy that was so clear earlier is now in doubt. Could Hamlet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 320 pages
...blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. l'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I' 1l catch the conscience... | |
 | Thomas Clayton - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 205 pages
...have seen May be a dev'l, and the dev'l hath power T assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, 600 Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very...me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this—the play's the thing 604 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. Exit. The first things... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 313 pages
...devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, 630 As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me...Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. [Exit. ACT III SCENE I. A room in the castle. Enter KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN.... | |
 | Hilaire Kallendorf - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 327 pages
...Hamlet speaks the lines: ... The spirit that I have seen May be a [dev'l], and the [dev'l] hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me ...l88 The theme of performativity or role playing as employed in Hamlet has been emphasized by many... | |
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I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have... 
