MacbethClarendon Press, 1876 - 180 pages |
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... tale told by these Witches , streight wayes brake the image , & caused ye Witches ( according as they had well deserued ) to bee burnt to death . It was sayd that the king , at the very same time that these things were a doyng within ...
... tale told by these Witches , streight wayes brake the image , & caused ye Witches ( according as they had well deserued ) to bee burnt to death . It was sayd that the king , at the very same time that these things were a doyng within ...
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... his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . 20 Enter a Messenger . Thou comest to use thy tongue 68 MACBETH . SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle. ...
... his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . 20 Enter a Messenger . Thou comest to use thy tongue 68 MACBETH . SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle. ...
Page 90
... Tale , v . 2. 47-50 : There might you have beheld one joy crown another , so and in such manner that it seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them , for their joy waded in tears . ' 37. establish our estate , settle the succession to the ...
... Tale , v . 2. 47-50 : There might you have beheld one joy crown another , so and in such manner that it seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them , for their joy waded in tears . ' 37. establish our estate , settle the succession to the ...
Page 91
... Tale , i . 2. 91 : ' Cram's with praise and make's As fat as tame things . ' 56. banquet , as Archbishop Trench has pointed out ( Select Glossary ) , ' used generally to be restrained to the lighter and ornamental dessert or confection ...
... Tale , i . 2. 91 : ' Cram's with praise and make's As fat as tame things . ' 56. banquet , as Archbishop Trench has pointed out ( Select Glossary ) , ' used generally to be restrained to the lighter and ornamental dessert or confection ...
Page 101
... Tale , iv . 2. 3 : ' ' Tis a sickness denying thee anything ; a death to grant this . ' 70. put upon , attribute to falsely . Compare Twelfth Night , v . 1. 70 : ' But in conclusion put strange speech upon me . ' 71. spongy . Compare ...
... Tale , iv . 2. 3 : ' ' Tis a sickness denying thee anything ; a death to grant this . ' 70. put upon , attribute to falsely . Compare Twelfth Night , v . 1. 70 : ' But in conclusion put strange speech upon me . ' 71. spongy . Compare ...
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adjective Anglo-Saxon Antony and Cleopatra Banquo blood called castell Compare Antony Compare King Lear Compare Richard Compare The Merchant conjectured Coriolanus Cotgrave Cymbeline death deed derived Dict Donalbain Duncan Dunsinane Dyce emendation England enimies Enter MACBETH Exeunt Fairfax's Tasso fear Fleance French gives Hamlet hand Hanmer hath haue heaven Hecate Henry Holinshed honour Johnson Julius Cæsar King John King Lear Knocking Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox lord Malcolm Malone means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream murder nature noble Othello passage play Pope read quotes Romeo and Juliet Ross sayde scene Scotland Second Witch sense Shakespeare Sidney Walker Siward slain sleep speak spelt Steevens syllable Tempest thane of Cawdor thee theyr things thou thought Timon of Athens Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night verb vnto vpon weird sisters wife Winter's Tale word
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Page 2 - Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page xl - My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction Of noble having, and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal ; to me you speak not ; If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, (1) A man forbid, — one under a curse, accursed.
Page 3 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ' Hold, hold !
Page 35 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 2 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Page 24 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly...
Page 5 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 66 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your...
Page 5 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 1 - 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 wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it'; And that which rather thou dost fear to do 22 Than wishest should be undone.