| Josiah Phillips Quincy - 1854 - 70 pages
...annotator notwithstanding says, "points" which is not unlikely to have been the genuine reading. " 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... | |
| 1854 - 768 pages
...otwcharg'd with double cracks, So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe." Bom 8. "Kadbetk.— 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...meddling with the supernatural can be neither good nor evil. If 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 135 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against... | |
| James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...witness that his selfhood is disjoined from the heroic image he projects: This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
| Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...swelling act Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.— [Aside] This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
| Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...Macbeth's thoughts in the "very process of conscious formulation"": [Aside.] This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
| Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - Drama - 1992 - 320 pages
...drive him to its center, to image. Indeed, all facts meld into images. This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
| Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...resemblances remain. Macbeth does open his mind to diabolical promptings: This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
| Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...fair promise is followed in his imagination by the fantasy of murder. This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?' (Richard 7/I.3.294) 'This supernatural soliciting 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... | |
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