 | Jill Robbins - Philosophy - 1999 - 210 pages
...come from the danger. "What man dare, I dare . . . Approach thou like the rugged Russian Bear . . . Take any shape but that, and my firm Nerves shall never tremble . . . Hence horrible Shadow, unreal mockery hence . . ." It is the shadow of being that horrifies Macbeth;... | |
 | Vassiliki Kolocotroni - History - 1998 - 658 pages
...national customed seat at the Nation's feast. In vain do we cry to this our vastest social problem: — 'Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble!' The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found freedom his promised... | |
 | Charles H. Frey - Drama - 1999 - 228 pages
...USE? To BE SO DESPERATELY AFRAID OF BABIES AND CHERUBIM, TO IDENtify them with fear itself (compare, "If trembling I inhabit then, protest me / The baby of a girl" [3.4.106-7]), Macbeth must be crazy. Crazy like a fox, or shadow. Macbeth inhabits shadowland; he speaks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 148 pages
...dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 102 The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; 103 Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Or be alive again 105 And dare me to the desert with thy sword. 106 If trembling I inhabit then, protest me 107 The baby... | |
 | Floyd Windom Hayes - Social Science - 2000 - 686 pages
...its accustomed seat at the Nation's feast. In vain do we cry to this our vastest social problem: — "Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble!" The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised... | |
 | Barbara Landau - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 386 pages
...Macbeth, who was terrified by Banquo's ghost but calmed immediately after his disappearance: Macbeth: Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.... Unreal mock'ry, hence! Exit Ghost Why so, being gone, I am a man again. (Macbeth, III, iv, 101-102,106-107)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 514 pages
...I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian Bear, The Armd Rhinoceros, or the Hircanian Tigre : Take any shape but that; and my firm Nerves Shall never tremble; Or revive a while, And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword, If any Sinew shrink, proclaim me then The... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...in its accustomed seat at the Nation's feast. In vain do we cry to this our vastest social problem: "Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble!" The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...apologetic) Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom. Tis no other. MACBETH What man dare, I dare. Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Macbeth 75 (The dancers have fallen back on either side, leaving Macbeth to stand alone under the great... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 192 pages
...Cleopatra, rv, vii, 5) Yet Abbott and even Franz leave room for further annotations upon such lines as: If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl, (Macbeth, ra, v, 105-6) as a glance at the New Arden edition of Macbeth will show. These scholars were... | |
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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... 
