 Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly; These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which...  The Magnificent Ambersons - Page 365by Booth Tarkington - 1920 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Terrence Ortwein - Drama - 1994 - 100 pages
...it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? HAMLET. Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, That can denote me truly.... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Drama - 1995 - 220 pages
...ii, 76); whereupon Hamlet's art of irrelevance occasions a speech on the deceptiveness of appearance: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
..."'Seems,' madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems'" (76), stressing his disgust in "k" and "s" sounds: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black ..." (77-78) He establishes his role: if the external signs of his mourning are "actions that a man... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 232 pages
...from the National Endowment for the Humanities. INTRODUCTION: INWARDNESS AND SPECTATORSHIP 3* I V. Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspirations of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...dismissing tears as so many feigned motions of actors: Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...reprimand in her voice. "Seems, Madam?" Hamlet is provoked to retort, Nay, it is. I know not "seems." "Pis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior... | |
 | Peter Iver Kaufman - History - 1996 - 192 pages
...seem the somber monk at a generally festive court. Hamlet responds that more than seeming is at stake. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Xor the dejected havior... | |
 | Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 414 pages
...Hamlet styles his grief as that which "passes show": Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems." Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
 | John Harvey - History - 1995 - 292 pages
...ascetic severity and revulsion; and Hamlet can seem to mourn a larger evil than his father's death: Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black . . . That can denote me truly. . . . ... I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...so particular with thee?' Hamlet pounces on 'seems': Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not 'seems'. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour... | |
| |
