 | Harald William Fawkner - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. (2.1.49-60) It may be argued and felt, of course, that Macbeth is affirming absence here: indeed he... | |
 | Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...should not be told or spoken is exemplified in Macbeth's "dagger" speech:32 Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for...Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. (2.1.56-61) Compare this prohibition of hearing and telling with the speech of the 32. For other examples... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for...Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee... | |
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s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. 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... 
