Shakespear's Tragedy of Macbeth: Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Analytic QuestionsH. Holt & Company, 1899 - 199 pages |
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Shakespear's Tragedy of Macbeth: Edited With an Introduction, Notes, and ... Lucius Adelno Sherman No preview available - 2023 |
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Abbott adjective adverbial Æneid Angus apparition appears Banquo beth Birnam blood CAITHNESS castle cause Cawdor Clark and Wright course crown dæmon dagger death deed died hereafter Doctor Donalbain Duncan Dunsinane Edited by Prof England English Enter MACBETH Exeunt eyes fear feeling Fleance Folio reading Forres Gentlewoman Ghost give Glamis hand hath Hecate Henry Holt Holinshed king King of Scotland king's knocking Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox Literature lord Macdonwald Malcolm meaning mind mood nature night noble Note paragraph perfect spy perhaps person play present quoted by Furness reason reference Ross Samuel Johnson scene Scotland Second Witch seems sense sergeant servants Seyton Shakes Shakespeare Siward sleep speak spirit stage direction suggestion suppose thane of Cawdor thee There's things Third Murderer Third Witch thou thought tion verb vnto weird sisters wife word ΙΟ
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Page 69 - She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 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 14 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 10 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this.
Page 19 - 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 31 - Makes wing to the rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 62 - The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now ? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that ; you mar all with this starting.
Page 1 - 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 6 - 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 16 - But wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen?" I had most need of blessing, and "Amen
Page 42 - 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, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches...