 And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,...  The Southern Workman - Page 5851912Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...moon. 2 Omen is here put, by a figure of speech, for predicted evmt. The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding...sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring1 spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar.... | |
 | Grabes - 1991 - 280 pages
...of the "truth" (I, i, 160-1) of the proposition according to which the cock awakes with his crowing the "god of day! ..., and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th'extravagant and erring spirit hies to his confine; (I, i, 157-60) Horatio now knows that this 'fantasy',... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pages
...Horatio, who now freely, and with relief, in a lyrical tone, embraces old pagan hearsay: I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn. Doth with...warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th'extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine . . . And this night, Horatio says, proves it.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock that is the trumpet to the morn 1 50 Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake...warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th'extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - 1995 - 452 pages
...is the allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet with 'dawn's lone trumpeter' echoing Horatio's I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with...lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day . . . (Hamlet I.1) In Shakespeare's world the god of day arrives to frighten away creatures of the... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...the cock crew. HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with...warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 pages
...a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, iso Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake...warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein 155 This present object... | |
 | J. W. Wickwar - 1996 - 178 pages
...spectres wandered about and haunte their old habitations until: "The cock that is the trumpet of the day, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and at his warning The extravagant and erring spirit flies away." Has this old belief anything to do with weather-vane... | |
 | Page Smith, Charles Daniel - 2000 - 398 pages
...cock crew. HORATIo : And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with...air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein J7^ Cock This present object made probation. MARCELLUS: It faded... | |
 | Page Smith, Charles Daniel - 2000 - 398 pages
...cock crew. HORATIO : And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with...air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein The Cock This present object made probation. MARCELLUS: It faded... | |
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