 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 pages
...HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flattered ? 70 No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift... | |
 | 1971 - 330 pages
...proposal submitted by Senator Bayh (S. 1127) on historically identified command-influence problems. ... let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii IN ADOPTING the Uniform Code of Military Justice 1 in 1950,... | |
 | Steven Berkoff - 1990 - 228 pages
...real, not like the others who are always fanning compliments at each other. I add, almost jokingly: ... let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. What a mass of metaphor and analogies; hardly a word wasted - pure beef and no fat. I make a small... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 256 pages
...rejection of the polite self-fashioning of the court ("I know not 'seems'"), the sweet poison of etiquette ("No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee" [3.2.60-61]), and the orotund style of courtly diction, which he apes (5.2.112-23). Everything at Elsinore... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why...absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 60 Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pages
...of the court's selfish Osric type, so unlike the loyal Horatio. Why should the poor be flatter 'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Hamlet can be as snobbish about courtiers as about peasants; what comes clear is that he is in fact... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pages
...foppish courtiers draws on several elements of Spurgeon's cluster to suggest pre-oedipal devotion: "let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook...pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow /awning" (Ham. 3.2.60-62; italics added). In this description of what we might call "licking up,"40... | |
 | Peter Erickson - 1991 - 244 pages
...Hamlet keeps up a running commentary on the vagaries that attend the pursuit of courtly advancement: "No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And...hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning" (3.2.60-62). Yet this expression of disdain is itself a standard pastoral line: "Renaissance pastoral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...remembered. 23 Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...and clothe thee? There is a knock at the door. HAMLET goes over to greet a cadet. HAMLET (continuing) Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. He leads HORATIO over to the desk and HORATIO sits down. HAMLET (continuing) Dost thou hear? — Since... | |
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No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant ' hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath sealed thee... 
