...Ophelia and himself too, are awry: 'What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven ? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.' If Hamlet's wit here as elsewhere seems malicious, it is because it inflicts pain; but that pain is...

...achievement: Sweet Revenge, by Thomas Henry King. He shouldn't linger. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in. Her eyes flew open, "What..." He filled her mouth with his flicking tongue mingling his breath with...

...such things that it were better my mother had not born me. 125 I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts...as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are 1 30 arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father? Oph. At...

...such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. (HamZctIII...

...the Question of History," 149 I am very proud, revengeful, amhitious; with more offences at my heck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet 3.1.125-18 One sound reason not to emhark on a discussion of Lady Macheth's...

...inwardturning critical faculty — "I am myself indifferent honest. ... I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts...imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in" (3.1.123-27) — seem especially resonant here. Much like the melancholic he describes and like Hamlet...

...himself, he commands her soul to its safety. Or, if he thinks her association with him is dangerous — "What should such fellows as I do crawling between...earth? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us" (3.1. 127-29) — he is signaling her association with him and with his father as indivisible. Both...

...heard, and going their waies, are choked with cares.' Shaks. has it often, as Samlet, in. i. 132— 'We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.' 22. Go the way : This phrase, which has no connexion with the preceding, is used both literally and...

...such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts...what should such fellows as I do crawling between 539 earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us — go thy ways to a nunnery, [suddenly]...

...such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts...What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us. This is as intemperate and absolute...