...to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more! - Shakespeare, (Hamlet) Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,...

...after/ And pine for what is not'. As Donald Reiman observes, in these lines Shelley echoes Hamlet:^ What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and...

...revenge" (34—35). This statement is self-focused, but his next statement is a generalization on man: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more" (35-37). Later on, he references the army going to fight for the...