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Upon this general infatuation Shakspere might be easily allowed to found a play ,
efpecially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then
thought true ; can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment , however they ...
Upon this general infatuation Shakspere might be easily allowed to found a play ,
efpecially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then
thought true ; can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment , however they ...
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A foolish thought , to say a sorry sight . Mac . There's one did laugh in his sleep ,
and one cry'd , murder ! That they did wake each other ; I stood and heard them :
But they did say their prayers , and address'd them Again to sleep . Lady .
A foolish thought , to say a sorry sight . Mac . There's one did laugh in his sleep ,
and one cry'd , murder ! That they did wake each other ; I stood and heard them :
But they did say their prayers , and address'd them Again to sleep . Lady .
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My former speeches have but hit your thoughts , Which can interpret further : only
, I say , Things have been strangely ... Men must not walk too late , Who cannot
want the thought , how monsterous It was for Malcolm , and for Donalbain , To kill
...
My former speeches have but hit your thoughts , Which can interpret further : only
, I say , Things have been strangely ... Men must not walk too late , Who cannot
want the thought , how monsterous It was for Malcolm , and for Donalbain , To kill
...
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... The flighty purpose never is o'er- took ; Unless the deed go with it : from this
moment , The very firstlings * of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand . ; And
even now ' ; e To crown my thoughts with acts , be it thought and done : The
castle ...
... The flighty purpose never is o'er- took ; Unless the deed go with it : from this
moment , The very firstlings * of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand . ; And
even now ' ; e To crown my thoughts with acts , be it thought and done : The
castle ...
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-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him ? 42
Dołt . Do you mark that ? Lady . The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now ?
--What , will these hands ne'er be clean ? No more oʻthat , my lord , no more ...
-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him ? 42
Dołt . Do you mark that ? Lady . The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now ?
--What , will these hands ne'er be clean ? No more oʻthat , my lord , no more ...
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Attendants Banquo bear Birnam blood born Bring charm comes dare dead death deed Doct double doubt Duncan England Enter MACBETH Exeunt Exit eyes face father fear fight Fleance friends Gent Give given grace hand hast hath head hear heart heaven highness hold honour hope hour I'll i'the keep king Knock known Lady Lady MACBETH leave LENOX light live look lord Macd Macduff MALCOLM meet mind murder nature never night noble once play poor pray reason rest Rosse SCENE Scotland shake shew SIWARD sleep Soldiers speak spirits stand strange sword tell thane thane of Cawdor thanks thee There's things thou thought Thunder tongue trouble true truth wife Witch woman wood worthy young
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Page 42 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 6 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 14 - Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 13 - Yet do I fear thy nature ; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.
Page 42 - Enter MACBETH. How now, my lord ? why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making ? Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on ? Things without all remedy, Should be without regard : what's done is done.
Page 16 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
Page 15 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 72 - Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy ; And sundry blessings hang about his throne, That speak him full of grace.
Page 82 - Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 5 - The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Macbeth, from the text of S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised Bell's ed |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Published | 1784 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Jul 2007 |
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