 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...Claudius and his habits but by an unnamed and unspecified female body that corrupts man against his will: So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), . . . these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being Nature's livery or Fortune's star,... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...and by Jorstad (1988). But this was centuries after Shakespeare had given this precise description: 'So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...indeed it takes From our achievements, though perform'd at height The pith and marrow of our attribute, So oft it chances in particular men, That for some...guilty, (Since nature cannot choose his origin) By their ore-grow'th of some complexion Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...he were asking questions of himself. HAMLET (continuing) By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Ojt breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by...Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being Nature's livery or Fortune's star, His virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo,... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - 1996 - 228 pages
...either his father's situation or his own — decries "general" or popular judgments on "particular men": So, oft it chances in particular men That for some...guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit,... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - 1997 - 612 pages
...them, As in their birth, wherin they are not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the...Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being Nature's livery or Fortune's star, His virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo,... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pages
...verdict of the court. Then, in his discourse to Horatio and Marcellus on the sentry platform, comes So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some...not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin — A man is guiltless of his genetic heritage; but note the conclusion Shall in the general censure... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 pages
...birth, wherein they are not guilty, 25 Since nature cannot choose his origin, By their o'ergrow th of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and...o'erleavens The form of plausive manners that these men, 30 Carrying I say the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery or fortune's star, His virtues else... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...it takes From our achievements, though perform 'd at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So oft it chances in particular men That, for some...Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery or fortune's star, — Their virtues else — be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 pages
...with the text of Hamlet's sardonic speech on Danish drunkenness and revelry, spoken aloud by Olivier: So oft it chances in particular men That (for some...Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star) His virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo,... | |
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So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth,— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts... 
