...be a coinage of the brain, " a • subjective bodiless creation, which ecstacy is very cunning in." "The spirit that I have seen May be a devil ; and...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me." It is with deliberation, therefore, that he seeks for a means of testing his condition, and with eagerness...

...of her most unprejudiced and distinguished favourites. Hear it then in the following lines : — ' The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. fll have grounds More relative than this? The greatest interpreter of nature has given us here, her...

...distinguished favourites. Hear it then in the following lines;— ' The spirit that I have seen Hay be a devil, and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...very potent with such spirits) Abuses me to damn me. I'tt have grounds More retative than this.' The greatest interpreter of nature has given us here, her...

...wanting to the wonderful truth of the poet's conception than to make the victim confess his own weakness. The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the...weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with suck spirits, Abuses me to damn me. For Burton says, "Agrippa and Lavater are persuaded that this humour...

...murder of my father, Before 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...this ' : The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit, ACT III. SCENE I.— A Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS,...

...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...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me." And I remember that Lavater tells a story, which would lead to the same conclusion. A friend of his,...

...father, Before mine uncle ; I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him 4 to the quick; if he do blench, 5 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, •...Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative 6 than this. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [Exit. 1 The firet...

...natal hour — О be these gifts forever mine ! 121 HAMLET. COBTISUED FROM PAGE 99. "Тик spirit I have seen May be a devil ; and the devil hath power...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him...

...miraculous organ. * » » » 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...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He is uncertain whether the supernatural proceeds from heaven or hell, from God or the devil ; doubts...

...mine ! 1843. Hamlet. 121 HAMLET. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 99. " THE spirit I have seen May be a devil ; anu the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape, yea,...potent with such spirits,) Abuses me, to damn me." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale may be false, and the fear that it may be true, unite to send him...