| Herman Hooker - 1850 - 296 pages
...strange perverseness, and shows that we lie under an indisposition to do what our reason approves. " Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused." pie of Christ, to which both they and our hearts are opposed. If the example of the Creator... | |
| Richard G. Geldard - 2000 - 180 pages
...protest also against the view that chaos rules and that cosmos is an illusion. As Hamlet protested, What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV. iv, 33-40) It may be argued, of course, that our "large discourse" is an evolutionary development... | |
| R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 pages
...necessary use of a God-given capacity, as the commitment that makes us human: What is a man, If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. (4.4.34-40) He goes on to justify Fortinbras, and take him as an example, with only the twisted... | |
| Klingon Language Institute - 2001 - 236 pages
...Wilt please you go, my lord? I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. [Exeunt all except HAMLET] How all occasions do inform against me. And spur my...Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom 129 vortlbraS 'eH,... | |
| Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...man: What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? And he answers: A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (4.4.33-39) To be a man means not only to be alive, but to have "such large discourse" as to be able... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...artist. Hamlet certainly regards Fortinbras' actions as possibly true expressions of God's purpose: Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd . . . (iv. iv. 36) When Hamlet acknowledges that 'indtements of my reason and my blood' impel him to... | |
| Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 382 pages
...would like to believe that human reason is a godlike instrument by which people may act in the world: Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (4.4.36-39) At issue here is optimistic humanism — the strand in Renaissance thought that exalted... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...please you go, my lord? Hamlet I'll be with you straight; go a little before. [Exeunt all but HAMLET] How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my...is a man, If his chief good and market of his time 256 Hamlet Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,... | |
| Sir William Osler - 2001 - 416 pages
...88. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, iv, 39. To "fust" means to "grow musty." The exact quotation is: Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. 89. bovine: Like cattle; dull, stolid. tific branches, sometimes, too, in practice, not a portion... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...fashion and the mould of form, Th' observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down! Ophelia— Hamlet III.ii How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my...Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event, A thought which, quarter 'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts... | |
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