...IT COMES": UNCRITICAL READING AND JOHNSONIAN COMMUNION Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell, Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst...mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit 'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly...

...blossom as the rose.' 162.8-9. To revisit the glimpses of the moon: a further reference to Hamlet: 'What may this mean, | That thou, dead corse, again...thus the glimpses of the moon, | Making night hideous . . .' (l. iv. 51-4; I. iv. 32-5). 25. Byron: After his death in 1824 Byron's career quickly became...

...retribution. Shakespeare's tautology is discreetly removed. 'What may this mean,' asks Hamlet of the ghost, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st...thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous ...? 'Dead corpse', 'again revisit' — Gide could not bring himself to replicate such pleonasm; so...

...virtually an accusation for having broken bounds: Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn'd Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again. (1.4.27-32) Don Andrea's disorienting...

...Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canonized bones hearsed in death Have burst their cerements? Why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws 50 To cast thee up again? What may this mean That...

...death, Have burst their cerements: Why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again....mean That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit 'st thus the glimpses of the moon. . . . And when the Ghost answers him and says: "I am thy...