 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,...  The Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle - Page 291829Full view - About this book
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...the stops. Ouil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have not the skill. flam. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; yon would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...and shifting to every breath, to say to his critics, as he said to Rosincrantz and Guildenstern, " You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...the stops. Gi/i/. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have not the skill. Ham. , ڑ- : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this linlc organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood,... | |
 | 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...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. 'Sblood,... | |
 | 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...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. ' Sblood,... | |
 | 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...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. 'Sblood.... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...courtly playing upon him as a phallic pipe or recorder of which he accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...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. 'Sblood,... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern deserve Hamlet's contempt for the inefficacy of their prying, and he tells them, "You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...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, 'Sblood,... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...Francis Barker, seems to answer generations of critics as well as it does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...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. 'Sblood,... | |
 | Thomas Heywood, Sonia Massai - Art - 2003 - 168 pages
...read alongside Tabor's reference to his 'pipe' at 2.2.27, echoes Shakespeare's Hamlet, 3.2.355-61: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...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. 'Sblood,... | |
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