 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
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...delicate 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,...When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That hath a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...delicate 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,...argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...and container. Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, 55 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see 60 The imminent death of twenty thousand men That, for a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puifcd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, 5o Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to srir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How... | |
 | Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 pages
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 | Courtney Lehmann, Lisa S. Starks - Drama - 2002 - 254 pages
...performance, reprising his "Crispin Crispian" speech in Henry V in theme and delivery, pivots on this passage: Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument,...find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. (Branagh, Hamlet 122) As Hamlet speaks, the camera pulls back until he is a tiny figure in the snowy... | |
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