 | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - 1999 - 297 pages
...scrupulous in his demand for proof that he hesitates to act on the evidence of the ghost itself: The spirit 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... | |
 | Gary Banham, Charlie Blake - 2000 - 228 pages
...Specters of Marx: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, where at the close of Act 2, scene 2, Hamlet himself states: 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... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 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... | |
 | Keavin Hayden - 2002 - 114 pages
...devil is most devilish when he is disguised and undetected. Even William Shakespeare acknowledged: "Me spirit that I have seen may be the devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" (Hamlet, Act II scene 2). Satan's strategy is quite simple. If those who... | |
 | Michael Kessler, Christian Sheppard - 2003 - 254 pages
...shared with their time. They grappled with the dilemma whose shadow even haunted Hamlet about the Ghost: "The spirit that I have seen may be the devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape." Nonetheless, the certainty Luther and Teresa sought, and so insistently... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt - 2004 - 430 pages
...that he has seen an "honest ghost" (1.5.142), but his initial confidence gives way to uncertainty: 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 — As he is very... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 228 pages
...villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O. vengeance! This is soon followed by: 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 weakliest- and my melancholy. . . . Abuses me... | |
 | Arnau de Vilanova - 2005 - 288 pages
...Premia de Mar, 6 d'octubre de 2005 ESTUDI INTRODUCTORI I. EL DE REPROBACIONE NIGROMANTICE FI CCI ON IS 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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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... 
