Shakespeare's Tragedy of MacbethAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 264 pages |
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Angus Banquo Birnam Birnam wood blood C. P. ed C. P. editors Caithness called castle cites Coll Cymb dagger death deed Delius Dictionary died hereafter Doctor Donalbain Donwald Duncan Dunsinane edition emendation England English enimies Enter MACBETH evil Exeunt fear Fleance folio Forres gallowglasses Gentlewoman ghost give Glamis Glamis Castle hand hath haue heart heaven Hecate Holinshed honour hurlyburly husband Johnson king knocking Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lear Lennox lord Malcolm Malone means mind Moberly moral murder murther nature night noble passage play poet quoted by Furness remarks Rich Ross says SCENE Schmidt explains Scone Scotland Second Witch seems sense Seyton Shakespeare Siward slaine sleep Sonn speak spirit Steevens quotes suggested Temp thane thane of Cawdor thee things thou thought tion VIII vnto vpon Webster's weird sisters whole wife woman word
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Page 55 - I know I am thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
Page 69 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 90 - What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger ; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 113 - She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 111 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 193 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 76 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 44 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 57 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 60 - Yet do I fear thy nature ; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way; thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it; what thou wouldst highly That...