 | Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...inspiration from the Norwegian's example. but cannot help seeing through the illusion of his greatness: Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army...tender prince. Whose spirit with divine ambition puffd. Makes mouths at the invisible event. Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune. death.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...Of thinking too precisely on th'event A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom, 10 20 40 And ever three parts coward — I do not know Why...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...commands. whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom...not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do'. (IV.iv.39-44) Oblivion it obviously is not; ordinary cowardice it cannot be; but it may be, as Coleridge... | |
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Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have... 
