| George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. (iv 81) That is, he warns Hamlet against including others beyond Claudius in his condemnation; urges... | |
| Gilles Boulan - 2002 - 40 pages
...howsoever thou pursu'st this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Againts thy mother aught ; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom ledge, To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once ! The glow-worn shews the matin to be near, And'gins... | |
| K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...thou parsuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive 85 Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual... | |
| Christine Spindler - Fiction - 2004 - 293 pages
...easy-come-easy-go attitude. You never loved her. She was just easy meat. As far as you're concerned, you'd just leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and bruise her." "Prick and sting. And what thorns, for God's sake? That I wasn't in love with her doesn't... | |
| R. Clifton Spargo - History - 2004 - 338 pages
...in the play, the ghost had urged single-purposed revenge, advising Hamlet to "[l]eave [his mother] to heaven, /And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge / To prick and sting her" (1.5.86-88) — advice that might seem intended to spare Gertrude her son's accusation, but which I... | |
| Glynne Wickham - Art - 2005 - 328 pages
...inference, from the Ghost's warning. Ghost: ... let (not) thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. (I, v, 85-7) And just as Hamlet can, on occasion, recognize the hollowness of his own rhetorical or... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...howsomever thou pursues this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught - leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once, The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual... | |
| Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...and his injunction to Hamlet: Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her — all these points incline us to the view that the Ghost's story is true and that he is indeed the... | |
| Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...masters of their fates. [Julius Caesar I ii 1 39] Is this the end then? Leave her to heaven, and to the thorns That in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her. [Hamlet I v 86] The crocodiles are at it again Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the jlushing... | |
| Martin Lings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 228 pages
...bed" has come to "prey on garbage." No doubt in foresight of her repentance the Ghost says to Hamlet: Leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. (1, 5, 86-88) So meantime the Prince takes upon himself to personify those thorns in the hope, we may... | |
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