 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 str.
...world ! the paragon of animals ! and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust F — Id. Hamlet. I am but mad north-north-west ; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. — Id. Samlet. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - 1864 - 498 str.
...welcome : but my uncle-father, and aunt-mother, are deceived. Guil. In what, my dear lord ? Ham. I am but mad north-northwest : when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. Enter POLONIUS. Pol. Well be with you, gentlemen ! Ham. Hark you, Guildenstern, — and you too ; —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 868 str.
...welcome: but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. GUIL. In what, my dear lord ? HAM. I am — There is a play to-night before the king ; One scene of it comes near the circu Enter POLONTOS. POL. Well be with you, gentlemen ! HAM. Hark you, Guildenstcrn, — and you too ; —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 str.
...are welcome: but my uncle-father and auntmother are deceived. Guil. In what, my dear lord ? Ham. I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 4 1 Carry it away.] Bear away the palm, gain the day. 2 Hercules, &e.] The allusion is to Shakspearc's... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1865 - 392 str.
...prominently, but there are several allusions to it. Hamlet, for instance, quotes the well known proverb, "I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind "is southerly, I know a hawk from a hand-saw,"^ (heronshaw.) Again, in the scene where Romeo has just left his lady love, Juliet calls him back. O,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 str.
...welcome : but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. Guil. In what, my dear lord! Ham. I am but mad north-north-west : when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand saw. Eider POLONIUS. Pol. Well be with you, gentlemen ! Ham. Hark you, Guildenstern ; — and... | |
 | Abner Otis Kellogg - 1866 - 364 str.
...outbursts of grand poetic inspiration. Such will no doubt persist in believing him when he says, " I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." Those, however, who are familiar with the halls of an asylum for t.jc insane, and have repeatedly heard... | |
 | James Alan Gardner - 1997 - 364 str.
...bewildered. "Don't know how to take me, do you?" he grinned. "I'm not as senile as you might think. 'I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.' Who said that?" "Hamlet?" "Damned right, and aren't you glad I pressured the other admirals into requiring... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - 1997 - 418 str.
...my dear lord?" asks Guildenstern. Hamlet draws them nearer to him, as though telling a secret: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."179 As he draws back from them Polonius speaks from off left: "Well be with you, gentlemen!"... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 str.
...delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so. 10208 Hamlet I am to think! 9796 (in 1937) 10209 Hamlet Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? 10210 Hamlet The play's... | |
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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 
