 | Michael Gelven - 1997 - 188 sidor
...to play the pipe on which he possesses no skill. Hamlet upbraids him with this keen-edged analogy: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; You would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1997 - 184 sidor
...this pipe? [the Player's recorder] GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot. ... I have not the skill. HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest... | |
 | Nina Auerbach - 1997 - 540 sidor
...integrity to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after the play might have come from the soul of Ellen Terry: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1997 - 370 sidor
...Guildenstern. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1997 - 308 sidor
...useful."50 The allusion, of course, is to Hamlet's famous description of himself as a musical pipe: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 380 sidor
...Only two things the people anxiously desire, bread and circus games. Juvenal, Satires, X, c. AD 100 Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery . . . William Shakespeare, Hamlet... | |
 | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - 1999 - 108 sidor
...it will discourse most eloquent music ..." NIKITA IVANICH. "... I have not the skill! " SVETLOVIDOV. "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops ... and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 sidor
...explanatory prose. Instead, he appended A Lover's Complaint, as if to tell the wider lyric audience, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery" (Hamlet 3.2.363-66). Why then,... | |
 | Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - 1999 - 268 sidor
...attempt of later generations to sound the greatest depths of his nature and to each he says, like Hamlet, Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest... | |
 | Jean Battlo - 1999 - 76 sidor
...here too. (Begins reading; then quotes as if she 's often thought of her former husband in this way.) "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest... | |
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Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent... 
