 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 pages
...Fortinbras and his army: 91 Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. (4.4.48-53) 'Delicate and tender' was the title given to Babylon in the Genevan version of the Bible,58... | |
 | Jean Lorrah - 1984 - 292 pages
...supplied. "Shakespeare understood the warrior mentality. 'Witness this army, of such mass and charge,/ Exposing what is mortal and unsure/ To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,/ Even for an eggshell.' " He paused, then added, "Or as a Klingon poet might put it, Captain, any excuse for a fight." "Cynicism,... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
.../ Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do,'" he tells us. "Examples gross as earth exhort me": 98 Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. (46-53) As the trailing clause reveals, Hamlet feels admiration and scorn for Fortinbras, a man of... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pages
...as a stick for self-beating. The lowest things inform against Hamlet: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led...ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event — Unlike Hamlet, who thinks too precisely on the unknown future, Fortinbras exposes what is mortal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...do', Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine amb1tion puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, 50 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1993 - 678 pages
...such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, 10 Whose spirit with divine ambition puff d Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death and danger dare. Even for an egg-shelL Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument , But greatly to find quarrel in a straw... | |
 | Eugenio María de Hostos - 1994 - 552 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When... | |
 | Martha Tuck Rozett - 1994 - 234 pages
...unlikely to pause over the nuances of Hamlet's characterization of Fortinbras as one who "expose[s] what is mortal and unsure / to all that fortune, death and danger dare, / Even for an eggshell" (4.4.53-54). Where a sophisticated reader familiar with Elizabethan rhetoric might recognize the mock-heroic... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 pages
...undermine the validity of the distinction between valour and cowardice: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - 1996 - 228 pages
...quick passage over the stage in act 4, described by Hamlet in soliloquy. Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. (4.4.46-53) "The invisible event" refers to the future event, invisible because not yet realized. Fortinbrass... | |
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Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 
