 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...as Hamlet says, . . . 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: 111 have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein 111 catch the conscience of... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...way to uncertainty: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...potent with such spirits — Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.575-80) Such thoughts lead to a cycle of delay, self-reproach, continued failure to act, and renewed... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...emotional inconstancy: 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 my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.598-603) Hamlet sees himself here as too open and vulnerable to influences brought in and through... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...possession, one that renders him acutely vulnerable to demonic forces: "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."1 19 Hamlet marks, if not the first, then the most enduring representation of a depressed intellectual... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Mimesis in literature - 2004 - 230 pages
...hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea. and perhaps Out of my weakliest- and my melancholy. . . . Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. He does catch the conscience of the king. Horatio is his witness, yet there is still no way to move... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...quick: if he but blench, I know my course. And he goes on to say: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. He has at last been stung to action. But the action he proposes is not the killing of Claudius: it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 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...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king, [he goes [a day passes] ACT 3 SCENE I The lobby of the audience chamber, the walls hung with anas;... | |
 | Thomas M. Disch - Science fiction - 2005 - 282 pages
...was only a product of my own overheated imagination. Or then again, it may be, as Hamlet surmised: The spirit that I have seen May be a devil: and the...very potent with such spirits Abuses me to damn me. I had just laid aside the volume of Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica with which I had been beguiling... | |
 | Karen Newman - Comedy - 2005 - 176 pages
...I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power 595 T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing 600 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.' (II, ii, 543-601) The soliloquy may be divided... | |
 | Arnaldus (de Villanova) - Instrumentalism (Philosophy). - 2005 - 271 pages
...INTRODUCTORI I. EL DE REPROBACIONE NIGROMANTICE FI CCI ON IS The spirit that I 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. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2, 2 L'esperit que vaig veure podia ser un dimoni, i el dimoni be pot... | |
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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... 
