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" received his information, describing with admirable self-consciousness, the vacillation of his will, and the tendency of his temper : — " The spirit that I have seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,... "
Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on ... - Page 390
by Nathan Drake - 1817
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Shakspeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 698 pages
...reluctance, he begins to question the validity and the lawfulness of the medium through which he had received his information, describing with admirable...self-consciousness the vacillation of his will, and tlu_> tendency of his temper : — 44 The spirit that I hnve seen May be the Devil, and the Devil hath...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...mine 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...and, perhaps, Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I '11 have grounds More relative than...
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The Rationale of Religious Enquiry: Or, The Question Stated of Reason, the ...

James Martineau - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1845 - 214 pages
...in the following lines:— ' The spirit that I have seen May be a 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. fll have grounds Afore relative than...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench, I know my course. ~ åm As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7

1848 - 734 pages
...HAMLET. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 99. " THE spirit I have seen May be a 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." Thus the hope that the ghost's tale...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...blench, 5 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, • May be a 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 6 than...
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Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 2

Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 386 pages
...more relative than this;"— " The spirit that I have seen May be a 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." . Thus the hope that the ghost's...
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Sketches from Life, Volume 3

Laman Blanchard - 1849 - 418 pages
...victim confess his own weakness. The spirit that I have seen May be a 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. for Burton says, " Agrippa and Lavater...
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1849 - 398 pages
...have before put forth. Ib. The spirit that I have seen, May be a 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. See Sir Thomas Brown : I believe that...
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The Complete Works of Shakespere: Comedies

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 632 pages
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