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...who is, however, imbued with a Montaignesque scepticism: What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,...animals - and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?6 Photius reports in the Life of Pythagoras that Pythagoras attributed the nature of a microcosm...

...how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to...of dust? Man delights not me, no nor woman neither. (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2.2.315-321) Although Shakespeare may have read Saxo, it is unlikely that he...

...how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to...dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither. Shakespeare: Hamlet (Act II Scene 2) Epidemiology Prevalence 2-5% (derived from multiple sources for...

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...Shakespeare's Hamlet. The quotation, spoken by Hamlet, concludes with an expression of the hero's despair: "And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me — no, nor woman neither." Good stuff, that Shakespeare! Erasmus (A) was a Christian philosopher; his best-known work is In Praise...

...work that was man (chap. 3, this vol.), could in his next lines lose his confidence and moodily muse: And yet to me, What is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; No, nor woman neither. . . . Hamlet's doubting nature is indicative of the dissolution of the unified Renaissance ideal. Such...