...his harrowing encounter with the supernatural, asking: what may this mean, That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel, Revisitst thus the glimpses...souls? Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? (1.4.51-7) i Although he seems here to appeal to the authority of the Ghost and initially promises...

...prescript of the original KKK formed in Tennessee bears the following verses from Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again,...disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? (JC Lester and DL Wilson, Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth, and Disbandment [(1884), 1905: reprint....

...universalized and rationalized in a lucid and transparent diction. Think of Hamlet's address to the Ghost: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in...disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? O.iv, 51) Cain's more universalized experience on his visit to Hades is again and again in his long...

...To cast thee up again. What may this mean That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous,...souls? Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? The Ghost beckons htm HORAT1O It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire...

...first time, Hamlet asks, What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous;...disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? (I, iv, 51-56). 17. Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2 (Cambridge,...

...To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous,...fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition 55 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? [Ghost...

...oped his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel, Revisitst thus the glimpses...disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? (1.4.25-37) After he has named the ghost and called him father, Hamlet reverts to apostrophic negation,...

...of nature by leaving its sepulchre to "revisit the glimpses of the moon," forcing him and other poor fools of nature "So horridly to shake our disposition / With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls" (1.4.555-56). These words give voice to the reason that doubts so irrational a phenomenon. When Hamlet...

...Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again? What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in...souls? Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? Hamlet, 1.^.46-57 [Johnson on William Warburton's emendation of the above:] The critick, in his zeal...

...cast thee up again? What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit 'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous,...souls? Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? Hamlet, Liy.46— 57 [Johnson on William Warburton's emendation of the above:] The critick, in his...