 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : 1 Strengthen. * Implicitly relied on. 5 Incite. My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical,...Shakes so my single ' state of man, that function Is smothered in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not. Ban. Look, how our partner's rapt. Macb. If... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 508 pages
...Against the use of nature 7 Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state...Is smother'd in surmise ;' and nothing is, But what ¡9 not. Bin. Look, hovr our partner's rapt. Macb. If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...succession is unclear until Duncan names his successor. Like Macbeth's, its "single state" is "shaken"; its function is "smother'd in surmise / And nothing is but what is not" (I.iii.140-2). 'There's no art," says Duncan, "To find the mind's construction in the face" (I.iv.... | |
 | John O'Meara - Drama - 1996 - 134 pages
...symptoms of the evil 'suggestion' to murder: 'My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical/Shakes so my single state of man that function/ Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is/But what is not' (Mac., I.iii.139-142). Still another occurence of the device, more difficult to... | |
 | Jutta Schamp - Time in literature - 1997 - 382 pages
...Prophezeiung, daß er Thane of Cawdor werde, bereits völlig von dem Gedanken eingenommen, König zu werden: My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical,...smother'd in surmise, And nothing is, but what is not. (Shakespeare, Macbeth, l, 3, 139-142.) Bewertet Maguin bei dieser Textstelle das Heraustreten Macbeths... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical,...smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (1.3.127-42) At this point, the inclination to overleap the present and snatch the future by murdering... | |
 | Robert Keith Lapp - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 224 pages
...reconstructed in a rapid series of metaphorical allusions, beginning once again with a double epigraph: "Function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not." "Or in Franciscan think to pass disguis'd." THIS LAY SERMON puts us in mind of Mahomet's coffin, which... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical....smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (1.3.130-42) The rhythmic equivalents audible here differ conspicuously from those of Shakespeare's... | |
 | George E. Marcus - Art - 2000 - 518 pages
...tears) are often considered signs of the authentic. Act IV: Reconciliation My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state...smother'd in surmise And nothing is but what is not. Macbeth 1.3 Scene 1: Doubt With both indexical events, Colin and Mark, I came via different routes... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (1. 3. 126-41) Here, at its best, is the Shakespearian... | |
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not. 
