...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. O what furm of prayer Can serve ray turn ? . . . . My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go." 3. Secret faults make us critical. We seem better than we really are. Judas Iscariot had the "secret...

...mother stays : — This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. [Exit. The KING rises and advances. KING. 's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gaz'd on now, Will be a tatter1 d weed, of go. [E.rit. SCENE IV.— Another Roam in tfie same. Enter QCEEN and POLONIUS. POL. He will come straight....

...the paramount measure of true faith and salvation. Or as William Shakespeare put it more poetically: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go."sl Because of their very different conceptualizations of the individual's relationship with God,...

...nowhere. King Claudius, in a similar predicament, gives the usual honest explanation for this failure: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: words without thoughts never to heaven go." Hamm has a different, perhaps more honest, certainly no less responsible, explanation: "The bastard!...

...Elsinore hits the playhouse canopy and falls back down onto the platform - like Claudius's prayers: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go" (3.3.92-3). In this play, even the traditional revenge ghost seems to have returned from a world...

...themselves against the temptations of wayward thoughts — not necessarily in the sense of Claudius' "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go" — but thoughts about the intended beneficiary of the kaddish. Like Wieseltier I have been fearful...

...hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Exit K1NG (rising) My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Exit III .4 Enter the Queen and Polonius POLON1US 'A will come straight. Look you lay home to him....

...into its verbal expression. It is merely words, a kind of mental chaff. As he complains to himself, "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go."25 Unlike our relatively deadened verbal consciousness, actual thinking is alive. Like children,...

...iii. 36) He prays, by an act of will. How many of us can do more? And this is the inevitable result: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (in. iii. 97) 228 Try as he may, with his will, religion has not helped him. The world is in that...

...treachery, that prompted Stravinsky to allude in a roundabout way to Claudius in Hamlet (act 3, scene 3)? My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 38 Letter of 10 August 1927, in PMP, 263-4. 39 Letter to Myaskovsky, 9 July 1928, in ibid., 281-2;...