 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.  Familiar Quotations ... - Page 122by John Bartlett - 1875 - 864 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...is a man, If his chief good and market of his time . Be but to sleep and feed ? A beast ; no more, Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...gave us not That capability and god-like reason To rust in us unus'd : now whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...placed beneath " this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire ? " " Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd," or used like this ! And it appears that in one section of the world, at least, it is coming to be believed... | |
 | Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott - Science - 1999 - 612 pages
...What is a Man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, iv We are living in a new age of discovery. The major voyages... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - Philosophy, Ancient - 2000 - 180 pages
...What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more! Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV. iv, 33-40) It may be argued, of course, that our "large discourse" is an evolutionary development... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...What is a man, If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. (4.4.34-40) He goes on to justify Fortinbras, and take him as an example, with only the twisted... | |
 | Pia-Elisabeth Leuschner - Comparative literature - 2000 - 286 pages
...Verbindung von verweigerter Gegenwartsimmanenz, Sprache und Vernunft deutlicher werden läßt: „[...] he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking...That capability and god-like reason / To fust in us unused." („Hamlet". In: The Norton Shakespeare (Anm. 267) S. 1729, IV.iv, v. 9.26-29). Dieser Effekt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...man, If his chief good and market of his time 256 Hamlet Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event A... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...artist. Hamlet certainly regards Fortinbras' actions as possibly true expressions of God's purpose: Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd . . . (iv. iv. 36) When Hamlet acknowledges that 'indtements of my reason and my blood' impel him to... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...his time Be but to sleep and feed? (4.4.33-35) And, without hesitation, he answers: A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (4.4.35-39) Hamlet, paraphrasing the classical tradition in general and Cicero in particular, says... | |
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