...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 Now showing her the portrait of CLAUDIUS....

...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...

...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:...

...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...

...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 did seem to set his seal/ To give the world assurance of a man' (3.4.60-2). This figure of speech, combining two proximate...

...Mars, to threaten or 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. Here...

...threaten and command, 58 A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill 60 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. Here is...

...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 th e world assuran ce of am an : This was your husband. — Look you now, what follows:...

...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 emphasizes three things: visible looks,...