...enjoyment of that excellent gentleman's declining years, for he was one, on whom — — — " Every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man." Richly then he deserved to be happy ; and it delighted me to hear he was so. Providence,...

...counterfeit presentment of two hrothers. See, what a grace was seated on this hrow ; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten...herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A comhination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance...

...eyes of his countrymen ever fondly rested upon him, as "A combination and a form indeed, Where Ev'ry God did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man." The moral influence of his example was resistless. It was that which, while his whole soul...

...37 'Form and cause conjoined' recalls — and might even recover — Hamlet's image of his father as a 'combination and a form indeed / Where every god...seem to set his seal/ To give the world assurance of a man' (3.4.60-2). This figure of speech, combining two proximate substantive nouns, abounds in...

...counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow: 56 Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, 58 A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill 60 A combination and a form...

...portrait, but it tempts one to exclaim with Hamlet: 'See what a grace was seated on this brow . . . the front of Jove himself/ An eye like Mars to threaten and command,' balanced by the sensitivity of the nose and mouth." Peter Quennell finds in the Droeshout lips a "faint...

...counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars to threaten...did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. (m. iv. j }) This is my reading. The first line is colloquial; the second meditative. The...

...Hamlet's praise of his father to his mother: See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten...did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. This was your husband. (3.4.55-63) 25. In a difficult passage later in Act 5, lachimo speaks...

...Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill A combination and a form...seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. (1n, iv, No more than Hal could swallow the exaggerated stories about Hotspur can we accept...

...counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set...