| Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...stops. 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...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...long-suspected complicity, he does so as part of a thoroughgoing sequence of musical references in his play: Why, look you now how unworthy a thing you make of...You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass . . . Why, do you think that I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument... | |
| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...Guildenstern. But these cannot I commend to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass, and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...GU1LUENSTERN But ihese cannnt I cotnmand to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill. "o HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. And there is mudi music, excellent voice, in this little organ. Yet cannnt you make it... | |
| Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...metaphor of the musical instrument for his innermost soul. Hamlet says to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ yet cannot you make it speak.... | |
| Dana E. Aspinall - 2002 - 228 pages
...GUILDENSTERN: My lord, I cannot. ... I have not the skill. HAMLET. Wby. look you now, how unwortby a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and therc is much musie, excellent voice in this little organ, yet you cannot make it speak.... | |
| Beth Eddy - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 224 pages
...the content of the climactic passage, rather than the form. The Shakespearean passage in Burke reads: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it... | |
| K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...with your mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music. Look you, these are the stops. 376 Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony....play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you 380 would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my... | |
| Johannes Brahms, Siegmund Levarie - Quotations, English - 2003 - 396 pages
...these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. Hamlet: Why, look you know, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play...out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from the lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little... | |
| Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 pages
...Not for nothing, therefore, does Bacon make Hamlet say in exasperation to the artless Guildenstern: Ham. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it... | |
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