 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...МасЪ. The Prince of Cumberland ! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, [Aside. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be Which the eye fears, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 148 pages
...prince of Cumberland ! — That is a step, [Aside. On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, 320 For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 440 pages
...The prince of Cumberland I — -That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, [Aside. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye tears, when... | |
 | William Empson - Drama - 1986 - 262 pages
...out a number of them which seem to me to sum up the thought of the play particularly vividly, such as The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. and even "Hover through the fog and filthy air" is called a "vacuous tag-line", though it establishes... | |
 | John R. Briggs - Drama - 1988 - 82 pages
...(from his place in hiding) Jodai of Kyoto! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'er leap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. (He Exits.) FUJIN MACBETH. (Enters, crosses toShogun and bows to ground.)... | |
 | Ewald Standop - American poetry - 1995 - 172 pages
...des Tages. Daher sagt Macbeth: Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.4.50ff.) Hier haben wir eine zweifache Stufe, die Überbietung des einen Bildes durch das andere:... | |
 | Garry Wills - Drama - 1995 - 238 pages
...to be blotted out (1.4.50-53). Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand — yet let that be Which the eye fears (when it is done) to see. Macbeth is calling for the kind of night witches exploit — when stars are "blinded" (Marston),... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...invokes darkness as a cover not only to hide his intentions from others, but to hide them from himself: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.52-53) There is a deep ambivalence here. He wants to become king, and he is ready to kill... | |
 | British Academy - Business & Economics - 2000 - 590 pages
...marks or indicates. Consider these examples. (i) Macbeth: Let not light see my black and deep desires, The eye wink at the hand. Yet let that be. Which the eye fears when it is done to see. (l.4. 5l-3) (ii) Lady Macbeth: Thou'dst have. great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do'... | |
 | Antony Tatlow - Drama - 2001 - 320 pages
...others but from himself as well: Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.5o) As he gets deeper in, the figure of Macbeth becomes ever more the focus of contradictions... | |
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For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. 
