 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.  The plays of william shakespeare. - Pagina 255de William Shakespeare - 1765Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | David G. Riede - 2005 - 236 pagini
...(138). For both eras the futility of human endeavor produced the dilemma of the dispirited Hamlet: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more" (138, and see Hamlet IV.iv.33-35). Again seeming to describe Victorian... | |
 | O. Hood Phillips - 2005 - 240 pagini
...order. This tradition is seen by Richard O'Sullivan5 to be reflected by Shakespeare in the passage : What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast no more. Since He that made us with such large discourse Looking before... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - 2005 - 125 pagini
...Revolutionary Spirit of America." The Sun April 2005: 412. Chapter One Media and Men: The Making of a Jackass What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed a beast, no more. -Hamlet Act IV, Scene 4 This chapter begins on the pages of the... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - 2005 - 216 pagini
...apprehension, how like a god: the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals; . . . .J (II,ii,3i6ff.) 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... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 pagini
...example this passage from the soliloquy beginning "How all occasions do inform against me" (IV.iv.32-66): 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... | |
 | Lawrence L. Horstman - 2006 - 236 pagini
...motives and to deduce their origin in terms of cosmic properties, as begun in the next chapter. 92 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... | |
 | Eric Bentley - 2007 - 251 pagini
...WILLIAM: Yes, sir. HAMLET (reciting with slow intensity): How all occasions do inform against me And spur my dull revenge! What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep . . . (After the word revenge, the lights dim rapidly.) SCENE 2 The lights go up again at... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 pagini
...crown, his ambitions, and his queen."How all occasions do inform against me," Hamlet exclaims, And spur my dull revenge. 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... | |
 | Sally West - 2007 - 222 pagini
...after/ And pine for what is not'. As Donald Reiman observes, in these lines Shelley echoes Hamlet:^ 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... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - 2007 - 16 pagini
...drowsy, the king in his last days seems to embody the very life his son reproaches himself for leading, "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?" (4.4.33—5). It is also the life-style of his brother; he is the "bloat King"... | |
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