 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...! 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 - 1865 - 212 pages
...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 - Cheshire (England) - 1865 - 392 pages
...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 - 1866 - 788 pages
...uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. Gruil. 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. Enter POLONIDS. Pol. Well be with you, gentlemen ! Ham. Hark you, Guildenstern ; — and you too ;... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1866 - 538 pages
...one end of the country to the other, Sherman might say with Hamlet: " I am but mad, North, Northwest, when the wind is Southerly, I know a hawk from a hand-saw." He resigned his commission in 1853, aud entered the banking firm of Lucas, Turner & Co., in San Francisco.... | |
 | Abner Otis Kellogg - Drama - 1866 - 228 pages
...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 the insane, and have repeatedly heard... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...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. Seenter POLONICS. Pol. My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. Ham. Do you see yonder... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pages
...one end of the country to the other, Sherman might say with Hamlet: " I am but mad, North, Northwest, when the wind is Southerly, I know a hawk from a hand-saw." He resigned his commission in 1853, aud entered the banking firm of Lucas, Turner & Co., in San Fram-isco.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1867 - 520 pages
...surprising that this bird is not more often mentioned. Hamlet says : "I am but mad north north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw" Hamlet, Act ii. Scene 2. An old proverbial saying, originally " he does not know a hawk from a hernshaw"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 pages
...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 handsaw. Enter POLONIUS. POL. Well be with you, gentlemen ! HAM. Hark you, Guildenstern, — and you too; —... | |
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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 
