 My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward...  The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay ... - 第416页作者：Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 页
...unmistakable — and may, indeed, have partly been a mask for something Shakespeare could not otherwise say: to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is,...time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time . . . Other comments in the play on what majesty is are quite solemn; here Polonius rhetorics himself... | |
 | David Haley - 1993 - 332 页
...IILi.lSOf.), is not expanded. Courtiership and reflexivity in Polonius's self-caricature become merely gross: My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...time. Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. (Ham. II.ii.86-89) 17. Daniel Javitch, Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England (Princeton: Princeton... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 页
...but the main, His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage. KING. Well, we shall sift him. POLONIUS. My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Mad I call it, for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing... | |
 | 1996 - 264 页
...urgent. But POLONIUS knows he has them in his thrall. Documents are being signed. POLONIUS (continuing) to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is,...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, I will be brief. The signing is over. ATTENDANTS leave. CLAUDIUS and GERTRUDE are very pissed off with... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 页
...expressed. ALEXANDER POPE, (1688-1744) British satirical poet. "An Essay on Criticism," I. 2978(1711). Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Polonius, in Hamlet, act2, sc. 2, 1. 91-2(1604).... | |
 | Richard G. Stevens - 1997 - 410 页
...tedious speech that goads Gertrude into demanding of him "more matter, with less art," he tells us that "brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes."16 Hamlet describes him as a "foolish, prating knave."17 The good Polish jokes, the ones... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 页
...we'll feast together. Most welcome home. Exeunt Ambassadors POLONIUS This business is well ended. US My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Mad call I it, for to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing... | |
 | John Hort, Leela Hort - 1999 - 72 页
...kingship ought to be, what duty is, why day is day, night is night and time is time, would be merely to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. And to be mad is — simply — to be mad. But never mind that.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 页
...the following extract will exem plify) retains the outward form only. * Act v. sc. 1 . f Act iii. BO. 1. My liege and Madam, to expostulate What majesty...tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, — I will be brief. Your- noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 页
...we'll feast together. Most welcome home! Exeunt Ambassadors. POLONIUS This business is well ended. 86 My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. 90 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I... | |
| |
