 That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.  Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime - Page 151by Longinus, William Smith - 1743 - 189 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...gross in nature, Possess it merely. 4 That it should come to this! But two months dead!—nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion 5 to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem 6 the winds of heaven Visit her face... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...nature Possess it merely.—That it should come to this ! — But two months dead ! — nay, not so much; not two ! — So excellent a king ! that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he would not let the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. — Heaven... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother 140 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Fiction - 1988 - 532 pages
...Esq., Saturday, June 24). 3. "they suffered not . . . too roughly": Adapted from Hamlet 1.2.1 39-42: So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly ....... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven... | |
 | Norman Austin - Social Science - 2010 - 280 pages
...Hamlet. Hamlet muses, in his first soliloquy, on the contrast between his dead father and the new king; So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr. (I.ii.139ff.) He remembers the flawless love between his father and mother— so loving to my mother.... | |
 | John O'Meara - Hamlet - 1991 - 120 pages
...soliloquy with precisely this emphasis: That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...the form of the bodiless sun-god: That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr. (1.2.137-40) The identification of Old Hamlet with Hyperion makes him benignly and divinely distant,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay not so much, not two — So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, 140 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...does not surface at first. The care is for the father. A new triangle surfaces: Hamlet-father-uncle. So excellent a king! that was to this Hyperion to a satyr . . . Hamlet's "mythologizing" of his parents — father a God, mother a god's consort — made some... | |
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