 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 ページ
...the — surely choric — warning of Horatio: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord. Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw... | |
 | Charles Ludlam - 1979 - 76 ページ
...waves me forth again. I'll follow it. JENKINS. What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 ページ
...waves me forth again. I'll follow it. HORATIO What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, 70 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other, horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 ページ
...familiar passages have the same effect: the flowery moonlit landscapes of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the "dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea" where Hamlet might lose his sovereignty of reason; the "temple-haunting martlets" that build their... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 ページ
...fears when the Ghost beckons to Hamlet: Horatio: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 ページ
...professed rationality Horatio can describe the symptoms of acrophobia so accurately ("Think of it. / The very place puts toys of desperation, / Without...every brain / That looks so many fathoms to the sea') suggests the presence of the irrational Horatio planting the idea of suicide in Hamlet's mind lurking... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1989 - 348 ページ
...is about to follow the Ghost, Horatio warns: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 ページ
...ineffectual than Claudius against unreason: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dread summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other, horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw... | |
 | Steven Berkoff - 1990 - 228 ページ
...forbid me to follow as Horatio says, Horatio What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you... | |
 | James P. Lusardi, June Schlueter - 1991 - 260 ページ
...inspired Horatio's fears for Hamlet in the presence of the Ghost — "What if it tempt you .../... to the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea, / And there assume some other horrible form" (1.4.69-72) — Edgar convinces Gloucester that his attempt... | |
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What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness ? Think... 
