Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know... Select British Classics - Page 3181803Full view - About this book
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...tape recorder. Reviewer in The Guardian, 1986 Sff Boswell on SOCIABILITY; Goldsmith on WRITERS Jokers Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Hamlet, Hamlet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet I remain just one thing, and... | |
| Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
..."Yorick," replies the old fellow, and tosses the skull to Hamlet. Hamlet: Let me see. (Turns the skull) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises... | |
| Michael Earley, Philippa Keil - Performing Arts - 1992 - 164 pages
...father. Taking the skull, Hamlet muses on its significance. HAMLET. Let me see. (He takes the skull.) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge1 rises... | |
| James Joyce - Fiction - 1992 - 276 pages
...assuredly he is very ill.' 512 (p. 193) Alas, poor William refers to Hamlet's 'Alas, poor Yorrick! I knew him, Horatio - a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy' (Hamlet, 5, i). 513 (p. 193) Rotunda building complex including a maternity hospital and theatre on... | |
| John Sherman Wells - Drama - 1993 - 52 pages
...(Introducing the scene.) Auditions. (BLACKOUT. STAGE LIGHTS up.) IKE. (Holding a shrunken head by the hair.) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times and how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it.... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...facts. WILL ROGERS (1879-1935), US humorist. "A Rogers Thesaurus," in Saturday Review (25 Aug. 1962). 16 /0^z y+ ;s 9_: ? Ɨo k+/?g Շ > | ? | E b z jb֒ >z h 0 q . . . Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merrimen! that were wont to... | |
| Robert E. Wood - Drama - 1994 - 188 pages
...consequences he draws are in the vein of the satirist, Hamlet affirms his childhood affections for the jester. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is! my gorge rises... | |
| Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...Gravedigger says it belonged to Yorick, the king's jester in old King Hamlet's time. Hamlet remarks: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises... | |
| Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 414 pages
...memory and imagination seems reduced to this, the decayed skull, in a moment of visceral revulsion: Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now — how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises... | |
| William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...skull, the king's jester. HAM. [Takes the skulI. ] This? CLOWN. E'en that. HAM. Alas, poor Yorick! 1 knew him, Horatio — a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thou- 160 sand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge... | |
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