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English: With a caption taken from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, seated in his throne, asks a skeptical Senator Carl Schurz (with a concerned Senator Thomas W. Tipton standing beside him) to play on a flute which he proffers. |
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| Source | Harper's Weekly, April 27, 1872, p. 321. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caption:
NOT SO EASILY PLAYED UPON.
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U. S. G. “Will you play upon this pipe?” C. S. “My lord, I can not.” |
U. S. G. “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet can not you make it speak. Why, do you think, I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you can not play upon me.” — Hamlet, Act III., Scene II. |
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