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...adulteration of anything from alcoholic brews to the Gospel. It soon became associated, most strikingly in Shakespeare, with the moral virtue of wholeness, integrity, lack of dissimulation or pretense. Trilling introduces his concept of sincerity through Polonius's sage advice to be "to thine own self true," that "thou canst not be false to any man." From this point on to its decline in the nineteenth century, the paradigm of sincerity was an idea of self imbedded in social consciousness, with a keen sense of one's dramatic relation with other men. The existence of truth to oneself was linked...
...return for the hand of any lord she chooses. The King recovers in two days, and she picks Bertram, who wants none of her. He is forced to marry her, but leaves at once to fight in the Italian wars, and sends her a message: "When thou canst get this ring upon my finger, which never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to, then call me husband." Eventually Helena turns up in Italy, where she bribes a widow's daughter, Diana, with whom Bertram has a midnight assignation, to yield...
...Harvard's radical voice: As to the derivation of "Old Mole," why strain it out of Marx? Why not much more likely in cultivated Harvard from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5, when the Ghost beneath the platform says: "Swear." And Hamlet: "Well said, old mole! Canst work i' th' earth so fast? A worthy pioneer...
Pope was a child of his times who believed in a divine order, which he frequently described as nature. In An Essay On Man he wrote: "All nature is but art, unknown to thee;/ All chance, direction, which thou canst not see." It was upon a generally held conception of divine and human order that Pope built his strict prosody...
...Jonathan was strong of heart and body and his courage buoyed with the aid of the divine. He left his desk and buckled up for the encounter on the field of soldiery. But he turned back and queried the angel of the Lord, "Canst thou assure me that God will assure me victory over the sons of Eli when we buckle together if I buckle in good faith...