 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: The Lounger - Page 156by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 514 pages
...ones too, and he wants to be sure that he is not being led off by an evil influence or power. Hamltt: 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 820 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, 630 As he is very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 300 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 348 pages
...uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench,93 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil : and the Devil hath power assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and. my melancholy, — As he is very... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1046 pages
...uncle : I '11 observe his looks ; I '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...power T assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps 570 Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As lie is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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