MacbethClarendon Press, 1876 - 180 pages |
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Page vi
... many prodigies seen that night and the day before . And when Macbeth had murdered the king , the blood on his hands could not be washed off by any means , nor from his wife's hands , which handled the bloody daggers in hiding vi PREFACE .
... many prodigies seen that night and the day before . And when Macbeth had murdered the king , the blood on his hands could not be washed off by any means , nor from his wife's hands , which handled the bloody daggers in hiding vi PREFACE .
Page vii
... means they became both much amazed and affronted . The murder being known , Duncan's two sons fled , the one to ... mean time , while Macduff was in England , Macbeth slew Macduff's wife and children , and after , in the battle , Macduff ...
... means they became both much amazed and affronted . The murder being known , Duncan's two sons fled , the one to ... mean time , while Macduff was in England , Macbeth slew Macduff's wife and children , and after , in the battle , Macduff ...
Page ix
... means of ascertaining the date of Middleton's play . We know that he survived Shakespeare eleven years , but that he had acquired a reputation as early as 1600 , be- cause in England's Parnassus , published in that year , a poem is by ...
... means of ascertaining the date of Middleton's play . We know that he survived Shakespeare eleven years , but that he had acquired a reputation as early as 1600 , be- cause in England's Parnassus , published in that year , a poem is by ...
Page xliii
... means " the Smith's bothy , " and under this word may lurk some long- forgotten tradition of the real circumstances of Duncan's murder . The vision of a weary fugitive , a deserted king , rises before the mind's eye , recalling ...
... means " the Smith's bothy , " and under this word may lurk some long- forgotten tradition of the real circumstances of Duncan's murder . The vision of a weary fugitive , a deserted king , rises before the mind's eye , recalling ...
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... mean ? 40 Macbeth . Still it cried ' Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murder'd sleep , and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more . ' Lady M. Who was it that thus cried ? Why , worthy thane ...
... mean ? 40 Macbeth . Still it cried ' Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murder'd sleep , and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more . ' Lady M. Who was it that thus cried ? Why , worthy thane ...
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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.