 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...  The Works of Shakespeare - Page 347by William Shakespeare - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1964 - 158 pages
...uncle : 2 I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course.3 The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this : * the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | John Draper, John William Draper - 1966 - 276 pages
...subject, a summary that was really needless for his audience, for the other world was very close to them: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Larry D. Bouchard - 1989 - 300 pages
...bitterness, my sorrows to completion. But the hand that struck me was none but my own. — Oedipus the King1 The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. —Hamlet, 11.2* The literary theme of this book may be stated in a single clause: tragedy is a... | |
 | Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 pages
...reminds me of a rather profane blunder that an Actor is said to have made in Hamlet; as follows:— "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and...As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me too—dammel" 5 "The devil," that time, was too "potent" for him; and the mental association of his... | |
 | John Wray Young - 1967 - 180 pages
...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I* il tent him to the quick; if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me; Tll have grounds More relative than this—the play's the thing Wherein Tll catch the conscience... | |
 | Pasquale Memmolo - 1995 - 364 pages
...inszenierten Spiels selbst. Das Spiel mit dem Zweifel ist ihm verdeckender Schutz und Erkenntnisinstrument: "The spirit that I have seen // May be the devil:...very potent with such spirits - // Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds // More relative than this; the play's the thing // Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - 1998 - 370 pages
...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - 1999 - 320 pages
...scrupulous in his demand for proof that he hesitates to act on the evidence of the ghost itself: The spirit I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power...very potent with such spirits — Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Gary Banham, Charlie Blake - 2000 - 242 pages
...Specters of Marx: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, where at the close of Act 2, scene 2, Hamlet himself states: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and...is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play s the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit...very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
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