 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...I'll tent him to the quick ; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 260 pages
...character as of the kind abovementioned, when, hesitating on the evidence of his uncle's villany, he says, The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps 1 Oat of my weakness and my melancholy, Abuses me to damn... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 pages
...ter as of the kind abovementioned, when, hesitating on the evidence of his uncle's villany, he says, The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and. perhaps, Oui of my "Weakness and my rnelacichofy, Abuses me to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...tent him' to the quick ; if he do blench,8 I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...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... | |
 | 1803 - 354 pages
...as of the kind above mentioned, when, hesitating on the evidence of his uncle's villany, he says, " 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 and my melancholy, " Abuses me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...tent him5 to the quick ; if he do blench,6 I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this:7 The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...tent him5 to the quick ; if he do blench,6 I know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me : I'll have grounds More relative than this :7 The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...a bull, and on his back Her through the sea did bear. Spcitstr. 3, To deceive ; to impose upon. He perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very pdtent with such- spirits, Alines me to damn me. Sbaispearr, The world hath been much 'abused by the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench", J know my course. The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...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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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... 
