 | Melvin J. Lasky - Social Science - 506 pages
...singers." And a heckler cried, "But they can't even sing!" And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the...word of promise to our ear. And break it to our hope. (Macbeth, V.vii.48) In London, as I recall, this kind of fiendish thing is more politely received.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - Fiction - 2000 - 756 pages
...of thing." 17. The passage that follows this in the first version echoes Macbeth, V, viii, 21-22 : "That keep the word of promise to our ear/ And break it to our hope." 18. For the canceled reference to Tacitus and Montesquieu, see "The Man that Was Used Up," note 22.... | |
 | John O'Connor - College and school drama, English - 2001 - 112 pages
...Macbeth.) 'Accursed be the tongue that tells me so; For it hath cowed my better part of man; And be these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with...of promise to our ear And break it to our hope...' Listening to the dialogue, a thought suddenly strikes SAM GILBURNE (Thoughtfully.) '...That palter... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...of Darkness have played upon his hopes and fears: "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep...of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope" (5.8.19-22). Perhaps it is worth examining these matters more closely, bearing as they do on this most... | |
 | Hubert Harrison - History - 2001 - 510 pages
...gospel of freedom. Freedom to them has been like one of "those juggling fiends That palter with us in double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope." In this connection, some explanation of the former political solidarity of those Negroes who were voters... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...this paltring . . . Rome] JOHNSON: That is, this trick of dissimulation; this shuffling: 'And be these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with us in a double sense.' — Macbeth, [V, viii, 19]. 77. Becomes not Rome . . . Coriolanus] STEEVENS: I would read, 'Becomes... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...what has happened to him and utters the perfect definition of evil, which is delusion: And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with...word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. (v, viii, 19-22) Macbeth's last act is to resort to his word, and he dies as a man. I have advanced... | |
 | Robert Poole - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...its conspirator likewise blame the 'filthy hags' (IV, i, 131) for leading him astray: And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with...word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. (V, x, 19-22) Whether or not Macbeth's recrimination against 'these juggling fiends' expresses the... | |
 | Eva Hänssgen - Classical literature - 2003 - 300 pages
...Held den Mechanismus der Täuschung genau, statt nur seine Täuschung zu konstatieren: And be these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with...word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. [ . . . ] Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane And thou opposed being of no woman born, Yet I will... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Drama - 2003 - 276 pages
...from the womb. Macbeth's response is to denounce, or pray for, or command disbelief in, the "fiends / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep...of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope" (III, viii, 19—22). The picture here is that to wish to rule out equivocation, the work of witches,... | |
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And be these juggling fiends no more believed, ;>< That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. 
