...index? Hamlet Look here upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 55 See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's...herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, 6o A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance...

...poetical and the mythological. He resorts to both in order to express his admiration for his father: See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's...threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill . . . (H1, iv, 55-9) His verse has a range that Hotspur's cannot...

...I have lately quoted, is thought of as assuming 'the port of Mars'. We might compare Hamlet's: Sec, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls;...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...

...impossible male or masculine ideal against which Hamlet must judge himself is his murdered father. See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's...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...

...good Renaissance scholar. explicitly and repeatedly associates his father with the classical world: See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's...threaten and command. A station like the herald Mercury. (III. iv. 55-8) So excellent a king. that was to this Hyperion to a satyr . . . My father's brother....

...the index? HAMLET [leads her to the portraits on the wall] Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what...heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, 60 Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. This was your husband...

...two portraits are designed to guide Gertrude's responses: Look here upon this picture, and on this. The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what...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...

...gods, when he speaks to his mother in the "closet" scene. Pointing to a picture of his father, he says: See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's...a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. (III.iv.55-62) Hamlet thus sees his father as the embodiment...

...qualities of Gertrude's first husband with those of her second: Look here upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what...himself, An eye like Mars to threaten and command . . . This was your husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting...

...conversation with his mother, Old Hamlet becomes virtually a one-man pantheon of the classical deities: See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's...a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. (III.iv.55-62) Hamlet's classicisation of his father is...