...exaggeration, we might use the language of Hamlet — A combination, and a form, Indeed, Wbere every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. Adorned with these external graces, and, what is singular enough, gifted with a mind that...

...fallen mind. Our conceptions of the dignity of human nature are elevated in the presence of the Apollo. A combination, and a form indeed, Where every god...did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. The Laocoon, is a group exactly described in Virgil ; it represents Laoccoon and his two...

...inconsiderate proceedings of Nature, who would sometimes dignify with a heavenly patent, and produce A combination and a form indeed, Where every God did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man— where the party was, after all, perhaps, a mere upstart, a roturier, a parvenu. An opposition...

...thereby try to bring her back into the fold. He sings the praises of her former husband, upon whom every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man; This was your husband. — Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildew'd...

...herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed VCliere every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. This was your husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear...

...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 his seal To give the world assurance of a man. (3.4.55-62) Hamlet defines Claudius, and by implication all men including himself, in relation...

...yet affable in his manners, he presented almost the ideal of a Christian scholar and gentleman,— " A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal," — in the complete and harmonious development of physical, intellectual, and moral powers....

...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 his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. This was your husband: look you now, what follows. NARRATOR: Poor Hamlet, he has never been...

...Pierre Manent's mordant message. Jean Bethke Elshtain The City of Man To the memory of Allan Bloom A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did...seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. INTRODUCTION The Question of Man 0 profondeurs! faut-il encore l'appeler l'homme? VICTOR...

...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...