 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 grounds More relative...  The British Essayists;: Mirror - Page 263by Alexander Chalmers - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 354 pages
...characteristic of low spirits : " This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril promontory," etc. And, indeed, he expressly delineates his own character as of the kind above mentioned, when, hesitating on the evidence of his uncle's villany, he says, " The spirit that... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 448 pages
...characteristic of low spirits : " This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory," &c. And, indeed, he expressly delineates his own character...above-mentioned, when, hesitating on the evidence of his uncle's villainy, he says, " The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath power T' assume... | |
 | William Richardson - 1812 - 468 pages
...mine uncle. I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick ; if he do blench, 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...with admirable self-consciousness, the vacillation of his will, and the tendency of his temper : — " The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath power T5 assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — Abuses me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 502 pages
...mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick; if he but blench,0 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 pages
...characteristic of low spirits : •' This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory,' &c. And, indeed, he expressly delineates his own character...above-mentioned, when, hesitating on the evidence of his uncle's villainy, he says, The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T' assume... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...uncle : I 'll observe his looks ; I 'll tent him to the quick ; if he but blench, 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... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1847 - 232 pages
...even if I had been persuaded of the truth of the narrator. I should have thought, as Hamlet did, " 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... | |
 | 1916 - 690 pages
...test the truth of the Ghost's message, and to try " to catch the conscience of the King " by the play. He says : — The spirit that I have seen May be the devil ; and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape. Our final passage is in ' Othello,' Act II. iii. 354, and the words are... | |
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