 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...it hath cowed my better part of man : And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter l with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Macd. Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o' the... | |
 | Calvin Colton - Great Britain - 1836 - 372 pages
...upon the hill, I look'd towards Birnam, and anon, methought The wood began to move." " And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with...double sense — That keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to our hope." From Birnam's lofty crag I looked down upon the face of Dunsinane... | |
 | Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg - Self-Help - 1996 - 212 pages
...like to see you make. Putting up With Broken Promises "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. " —SHAKESPEARE "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." —FRANCOIS,... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...that he was not of woman born, Macbeth realizes that "these juggling fiends" use a double sense and "keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope" (5.8.19-22). At this point, he fights on merely to save a bit of dignity, to avoid being ridiculed.... | |
 | Robert J. Karris - Bible - 1996 - 372 pages
...That is, they are ambiguous and fulfillable on at least two levels. As Macbeth laments, "And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense" (V, 8, 19-20). Recent studies on John's Gospel are familiarizing us with that author's penchant for... | |
 | John Charles Franceschina - Fiction - 1996 - 480 pages
...page bore two literary quotations which were significant to the appreciation of the play: "Be these juggling fiends no more believed. That palter with...keep the word of promise to our ear. And break it lo our hope."— .Macbeth. and -- "Is it not written. that Whoe'er shall worship these dark Powers... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - Social Science - 1997 - 154 pages
...looking askance at any new gospel of freedom. Freedom to them has been like one of "those juggling fiends That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep...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... | |
 | Brian Richardson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 236 pages
...literally does come to Dunsinane, hand-carried by Malcolm's invading forces. The hags do seem to quibble "with us in a double sense,/ That keep the word of promise to our ear/ And break it to our hope." (5.8.20-22), but the problem is not so much the witches' words as it is Macbeth's uncritical supernatural... | |
 | Y. S. Brenner - Business & Economics - 508 pages
...your hate.' and from the scene at the end of the play, when Macbeth comes to realize that predictions 'palter with us in a double sense. That keep the word...of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope!' endowed, or still endowed to day. But I also showed that competition, the mechanism which accounted... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...learns that his challenger was not "born of woman," he responds with an attack on the "juggling fiends" 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). All these figures of equivocation are related to the overriding kind of doubleness that... | |
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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. 
