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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 Shakespeare Story-book, Part 1

Mary Macleod - 1902 - 492 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. I'll have grounds more relative than this," concluded Hamlet, touching...
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Shakespeare's Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 338 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 Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, As he is very...
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Shakespeare's Art: Studies on the Master Builder of Ideal Characters

James Henry Cotter - 1902 - 218 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 Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he is very...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 4

William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...may have betrayed him, and that the admonitions of the ghost may be a device of the Evil One : — 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 - 1903 - 306 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 power645 , T'assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps ' Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he...
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Hamlet

1964 - 158 pages
...uncle : 2 I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course.3 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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Hamlet of Shakespeare's Audience

John Draper, John William Draper - 1966 - 276 pages
...subject, a summary that was really needless for his audience, for the other world was very close to them: 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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Tragic Method and Tragic Theology: Evil in Contemporary Drama and Religious ...

Larry D. Bouchard - 1989 - 300 pages
...bitterness, my sorrows to completion. But the hand that struck me was none but my own. — Oedipus the King1 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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One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris ...

Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 pages
...reminds me of a rather profane blunder that an Actor is said to have made in Hamlet; as follows:— "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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Audition Scenes for Students, Volume 1

John Wray Young - 1967 - 180 pages
...mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I* il 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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