 Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...  Hamlet. Titus Andronicus - Page 113by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...are born great : — some achieve greatness : — some have greatness thrust upon them. TN iii. 4. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. II. iv. 4. Would you praise Caesar, say, — Caesar ; go no further. AC iii. 2. Why, man, he doth bestride... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...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,...argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of... | |
 | Vennelaṇṭi Prakāśam - Culture - 1999 - 186 pages
...delicate 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,...argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
..."Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd" (4.4.49). "Ambition," after all, is bound up with honor: Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument,...find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. (4.4.53-56) The way is open for the acceptance of Fortinbras's example and the correct version of the... | |
 | Theodor Meron - Law - 1998 - 257 pages
...delicate 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,...at the stake. How stand I, then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep while, to my shame,... | |
 | Ḥayim Gordon - Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 - 2000 - 146 pages
...delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffd Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...argument But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. How stand 1, then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd Excitements of... | |
 | Hans-Dieter Gelfert - Dramatists, English - 2000 - 132 pages
...tatendurstigen Fortinbras über seine eigene Tatenlosigkeit räsoniert, spricht er die folgende Überlegung aus: Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument,...find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. (IV,4; 53-56) Die Verse sind mehrdeutig. Bezieht man das not auf das vorangehende is, dann bedeuten... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...stupid and that the way of reflection may be wiser. Here are just two of numerous apposite details: Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument,...find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. Ostensibly, what he is saying is: 'To be truly great, one should not need a grand justification for... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...debate the question of this straw" (4.4.26-27). In the soliloquy that follows he sees Fortinbras as Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. (4.4.52-54) This means that the Fortinbras of the Second Quarto is subjected to a critical scrutiny... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...- stain'd; Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep! While to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy... | |
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