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" 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; with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 156
by British essayists - 1802
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The Subjection of Hamlet: An Essay Toward Explanation of the Motives of ...

William Leighton - 1882 - 88 pages
...killing a king? This will not do. Then there is the horrid doubt of the authenticity of the ghost,— " 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...
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Shakespeare's Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 260 pages
...mine 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 560 Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he is...
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Shakespeariana, Volume 1

1883 - 418 pages
...some demon in divine resemblance Have prompted this?" Precisely in this way is Hamlet's thought : " 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...
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Shakspere and Montaigne: An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet ...

Jacob Feis - 1884 - 274 pages
...meant to be guided. He mistrusts the apparition which he had called an honest ghost ('true-penny'):— The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil: and the Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. Yea, perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent...
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Hamlet, prince of Denmark, ed. by C.E. Moberly

William Shakespeare - 1884 - 168 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, 630 As he is very...
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Shakespeare's Works, Volume 13

William Shakespeare - 1884 - 508 pages
...uncle : I '11 observe his looks ; 1 '11 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 potent...
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Y Traethodydd: am y fleyddyn ..., Volume 42

1886 - 562 pages
...yrnddwyn yn unol â'r awgrym hyd nés y caiff " grounds more relative than this ;" canys dywed : — 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...
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Classic Selections from the Best Authors

Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...mine uncle: I 'll observe his looks; I 'H 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 potent...
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Shakespeariana; a critical and contemporary review of ..., Volume 5

1888 - 680 pages
...of the case — his uncle's possible innocence and his own over- wrought imaginations — The spirit I have seen May be the devil ! — And the devil hath power To assume a pleading shape. — Yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very...
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Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakesperian ..., Volume 5

Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1888 - 636 pages
...of the case — his uncle's possible innocence and his own over-wrought imaginations — The spirit I have seen May be the devil ! — And the devil hath power To assume a pleading shape. — Yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very...
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