| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...bosom, these.' Came this from Hamlet to her? Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. 'Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move,...dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not The Tragedie of Hamlet 69 What Maiestie should be, what Dutie is, Why day is day; night, night; and... | |
| David H. Levy - Nature - 2001 - 372 pages
...stars. As Ophelia reads a letter from Hamlet, the reference to Copernicus is meant to be taken lightly:3 Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun...Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii, lines 116-19) Only a few years later, Galileo's observations demonstrated... | |
| Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...anything but Hamlet's love. Yet, the meaning of the word "doubt" itself becomes ambiguous: Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (2.2.115-18) In the first two and the last lines, "doubt" means "disbelieve." In the third line, it... | |
| Rudolf Boehm - Tragedy - 2001 - 158 pages
...merkwürdigsten Zweifel haben sich erhoben; so Hamlet in seinem Briefgedicht an Ophelia: Doubt t hon the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 0 dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, 1 have not art to reckon my groans ... Thine evermore, ...... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...POLONIUS Good madam, stay a while. I will be faithful. 115 [Reads.] "Doubt thou the stars are fire; lie Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 0 dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not 120 art to reckon my groans, but that I love... | |
| Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...Claudius Polonius Claudius Polonius Claudius Gertrude Polonius Claudius Polonius Claudius Polonius But never doubt I love. 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, I have not art to reckon my groans: but that I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu. 'Thine evermore,... | |
| John O'Connor - Education - 2001 - 264 pages
...feet hurt. Tell me you have it started. (Desperately) You have begun? WILL (struggling with his boots) Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move . . . HENSLOWE No, no, we haven't the time. Talk prose. Where is my play? WILL (tapping his forehead... | |
| Sourcebooks, Inc Staff - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 388 pages
...with her own. — Colleen McCullough Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I. — Herbert Trench Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun...Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I LOVE. —William Shakespeare For those who LOVE ... timeisETERNITY... — Henry Van Dyke You are my love,... | |
| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...victim's wife. But we have a taste of Hamlet's quality as a poet in the verses he sends to Ophelia: Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun...Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. (n, ii, 115-18) We may deduce, perhaps, that Hamlet is not a Copernican; but we must agree with his... | |
| Graham Holderness - Fiction - 2002 - 254 pages
...penned by one whose gift of eloquence comes nowhere near the lofty height of his subject: Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move,...truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. O dear Ofelia, I am ill at these numbers, I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, O... | |
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