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" gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. "
The Construction of Tragedy: Hubris - Page 66
by Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 228 pages
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Mystic Chords: Mysticism and Psychology in Popular Music

Manish Soni - 2001 - 514 pages
...of ordinary mortals, defiled as it is by the passions of the flesh, and of which Hamlet lamented: " 'tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely." The savior returns out of his love for mankind, to redeem it and deliver it from the darkness that...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...Othello's herald (ii, 2) announces "the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet," and Hamlet calls the world an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. The word has lapsed in meaning to "only this," as mere trash, nothing more or better. A number of English...
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the ...

Will Durant - 2002 - 351 pages
...noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole?" (5.1). The world, in Hamlet's view, "is an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely" (1.2). In Othello (1604), lago stands for evil, falsehood, and treachery, and triumphantly survives;...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...h'x'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on 't! ah fie!...things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. Hamlet — Hamlet I.ii To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to...
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Amleto

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 340 pages
...God, God, How weary, stale, fiat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world I Fie on't, ah, fie, 'tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed....nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this But two months dead, nay, not so much, not twol So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a...
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Shame in Shakespeare

Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 292 pages
...God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie, 'tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed;...things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. (1.2.132-7) In effect, as this evocation of a decidedly post-Edenic garden intimates, Hamlet's experience...
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The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World

Albert Wertheim - 2000 - 308 pages
...the jobs Johannesburg offers, Willie describes Sophia Town as Hamlet describes the Danish court — "'Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely": HIGGINS. This is Tobias, Tobias Masala. He has just arrived here from the Eastern Transvaal. A simple...
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Temps et vision tragique: Shakespeare et ses contemporains

Gisèle Venet - 2002 - 350 pages
...«she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on» ; et 135-137 : «Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely». vous vertueuse ?» - fait référence au soupçon qui peut peser sur la chasteté d'Ophélie mais aussi...
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The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World

Albert Wertheim - 2000 - 298 pages
...jobs Johannesburg otfers, Willie describes Sophia Town as Hamlet describes the Danish court — u'Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely": HIGGINS. This is Tobias, Tobias Masala. He has just arrived here from the Eastern Transvaal. A simple...
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Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

Adriana Cavarero - 2002 - 246 pages
...natural setting that welcomes Ophelia in the mermaid scene, the world appears to the nauseated Hamlet as "an unweeded garden / That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely" (1.41.135-37). This is part of the soliloquy in which Hamlet complains that his too sullied flesh cannot...
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