 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. RARELAIS.— Vol. II. Book IV. Chap. XXIV. DEVOTION.— With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. DEW. — The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. PSALM CX. Verse 8 ; and SPENSER : —... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 392 páginas
...they are alluded to in what follows from the mouth of Polonius : — We are oft to blame in this, — 'Tis too much proved, — that with devotion's visage...pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. i. We may now inquire what positive evidence is to be produced respecting Shakspeare's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 páginas
...on this book, That show of such an exercise may colour Your loneliness, We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage...And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. KING \asidc:\ O, 'tis too true: How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! 50 The harlot's... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 páginas
...two-facedness in action, he might as well put it into words: We are oft to blame in this, Tis too much prov'd, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar oe'r The devil himself. He has said it aside, but Claudius must hear, since he responds, so Polonius usually muses it aloud,... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 páginas
..."Conscience" in Claudius's usage is always a kind of moral accounting. Polonius's platitudinous observation "that with devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar o'er / The devil himself provokes the King's guilty response: "How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!" His susceptibility... | |
 | John Russell - 1995 - 260 páginas
...more plausible disposition by providing her with a prayer book, has just remarked that all too often "•with devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar o'er / The devil himself (47-49). Claudius, turning away from the pair and approaching the apron of the stage, feels compelled... | |
 | 1996 - 264 páginas
...shoiv (>/ such an exercise may colour Your loneliness. (to The King) \\'e are oft to blame in this: 'Tis too much proved that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. CLAUDIUS O, 'tis too true. He turns back into the room while POLONIUS moves away, watching for Hamlet... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 páginas
...Hamlet by instructing her to pretend to read a prayer book in order "color your loneliness," adding that "with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself" (3.1.45-49). It is common, in other words, to cover over evil with pretended devotion and piety. Claudius... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 páginas
...exercise may color / Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this— / 'Tis too much prov'd—that with devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar o'er / The devil himself" (3.1.43-48). Polonius's observation recalls a theatrical tradition stretching back to the moral interludes.... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1996 - 220 páginas
...servants in the parson's kitchen. CHAPTER XIII A SLAVE HUNTING PARSON " "Pis too much prov'd—that with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er the devil himself." —Shakspeare. "You will, no doubt, be well pleased with neighbour Jones," said Mr. Peck, as Carlton... | |
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tis too true; How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word: O heavy burden! 
