 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - 第435页作者：William Shakespeare - 1838全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | James Redmond - 1990 - 250 页
...as Hamlet ponders Fortinbras' army, the idea is less paradoxical: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (1v, iv, 33-8) The scholastic echoes of this speech make clear that the calculation of Elsinore is... | |
 | Ludwig Schajowicz - 1990 - 400 页
...cobarde: How all occasions do inform against me And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whe'r it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 页
...question is still, for this Wittenberg student, how can I act nobly? What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Then why does Hamlet not act? Is he sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought? Now whether it be... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 页
...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? (Ill, iii) 35 What is a man, If his chief good ) # DN ] } x7 Y { 4 ? ` = C # ء 0 ,v ד 0 7 unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 页
...How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 4,4 Of thinking too precisely... | |
 | Robert C. Solomon - 1993 - 360 页
...life . . . reason, more than anything else, is man. In Shakespeare: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. In Goethe, "That glimmer of divine light— man calls it Reason." And in Immanuel Kant: Our existence... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 页
...muddy. Man is distinguished from beast by his inquiring intellect. What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV.iv.33-39) Yet, though bestial oblivion is a possible source of inaction, it is not a plausible... | |
 | Eugenio María de Hostos - 1994 - 552 页
...Hamlet: How all ocasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event,—... | |
 | Carla Waal, Barbara Oliver Korner - 1997 - 334 页
...good; such a life as yours must be, would, I think be glorious. What is [a] man If his chief good, and market of his time. Be but to sleep and feed?...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.14 One of my friends, rather an old lady and quite intelligent, has used all her influence,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 页
...Coming of Age of The Origin of Species," Science and Culture (1881). 6 What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? —...That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 4, sc. 4,... | |
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