What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like ? Let him go, Gertrude ; do not fear our person ; There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. The American Whig Review - Page 1851845Full view - About this book
| Joseph O'Leary, A Cork artist - 1833 - 244 pages
...fashion, " Clean from the purpose of the things themselves." It is not by such passages as— " There's a divinity doth hedge a King " That treason can but peep to what it would"— that \ve can arrive at Shakspeare's estimation of kingly power and authority. The speaker of these... | |
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| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...father ; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched1 brow Of my true mother. King. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. — -Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incens'd; — Let him go, Gertrude ; — Speak,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...father ; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste, unsmirched 1 brow Of my true mother. King. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...fear our person ; There's such divinity doth hedge aa king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...father ; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste, unsmirched ' brow Of my true mother. King. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...fear our person ; There's such divinity doth hedge 2 a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...father ; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched browi Of my true mother. King. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incens'd. — Let him go, Gertrude.-rSpeak, man.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...father ; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow1 Of my true mother. King. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks...treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes, Why thou art thus incens'd. — Let him go, Gertrude. — Speak, man.... | |
| Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 pages
...Queen greatly alarmed by Laertes' bold and firm demand of, Where is my father ? The King replies— Let him go, Gertrude ; do not fear our person; There's...king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Actg little of his will. The divinity of kings, in our poet's day, was maintained even with some degree... | |
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