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... Mirror - Page 249by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 260 pages
...To be, or not to be, that U the question. 1 The account he gives of his own feelings to Rotlncralz and Guildenstern, which is evidently spoken in earnest,...power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps 1 Oat of my weakness and my melancholy, Abuses me to damn me.' This douht of the grounds on which our... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 244 pages
...earth, seems to me ' a sterile promontory,' &c. And, indeed, he expressly delineates his own charac. ter as of the kind abovementioned, when, hesitating on...power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and. perhaps, Oui of my "Weakness and my rnelacichofy, Abuses me to damn me." This douht of the grounds on which... | |
| 1803 - 354 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 356 pages
...characteristic of low spirits: ' This goodly frame, the earth, seems tomt ' a sterile promontory,' 4cc. And, indeed, he expressly delineates his own character...T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, ' Out cfmy tvciikncsi and my mctaniboty , * Abuses me to damn me.* This doubt of the grounds on which our... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 380 pages
...abovementioned, when, hesitating <?n the evidence of his uncle's villany, he says, ' The spirit that T have seen • May be the Devil, and the Devil hath...assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, ' Out of my iveukncis and my melancholy^ , ' Abuses me to damn me.' This doubt of the grounds on which our purpose... | |
| 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 - 1843 - 970 pages
...with admirable self-consciousness the vacillation of his will, and the tendency of his temper : — 14 BmY oW-r % zf醖 y f5 . E mFT B ^{ am/ my melancholy,— Abuses me to damn me." Act ii. sc. 8. Here, therefore, on a structure of mind... | |
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