Macbeth, ed. by C.E. MoberlyRivingtons, 1872 |
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... true Highlander ; a man of most shaping and active imagination , particularly as regards gloomy images . A night - shriek or a tale of horror would set his hair on end ; he is just the man for second sight and ghost seeing . For such a ...
... true Highlander ; a man of most shaping and active imagination , particularly as regards gloomy images . A night - shriek or a tale of horror would set his hair on end ; he is just the man for second sight and ghost seeing . For such a ...
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... true feeling of the play . Even now there are sometimes traces on the stage of Davenant's comic arrangement of the witch passages ; and the action is , we believe , regu- larly interrupted by Matthew Locke's music ( which some people ...
... true feeling of the play . Even now there are sometimes traces on the stage of Davenant's comic arrangement of the witch passages ; and the action is , we believe , regu- larly interrupted by Matthew Locke's music ( which some people ...
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... true ? MACB . The thane of Cawdor lives : Why do you dress me In borrow'd robes ? ANG . Who was the thane , lives yet ; But under heavy judgment bears that life IIO Which he deserves to lose . Whether he was combin'd With those of ...
... true ? MACB . The thane of Cawdor lives : Why do you dress me In borrow'd robes ? ANG . Who was the thane , lives yet ; But under heavy judgment bears that life IIO Which he deserves to lose . Whether he was combin'd With those of ...
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... true : how workers of good , if my nature gives way and quails at the horrid image of murder which they create within me ? ' See Dr. Bucknill's Mad Folk of Shakspere , p . 13 , where the constitution of mind which this speech implies is ...
... true : how workers of good , if my nature gives way and quails at the horrid image of murder which they create within me ? ' See Dr. Bucknill's Mad Folk of Shakspere , p . 13 , where the constitution of mind which this speech implies is ...
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... true as that of nature and art in Winter's Tale , Act iv . Sc . 3- " Yet nature is made better by no mean , But nature makes that mean . وو See also the description of the effect of custom on nature in Hamlet , Act iii . Sc . 3 , and ...
... true as that of nature and art in Winter's Tale , Act iv . Sc . 3- " Yet nature is made better by no mean , But nature makes that mean . وو See also the description of the effect of custom on nature in Hamlet , Act iii . Sc . 3 , and ...
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Attendants babe Banquo blood Cæsar caldron Castle CATH Coriolanus cousin crime crown daggers dare dead death deed DOCT DONALBAIN Duncan Dunsinane England Enter LADY MACBETH Enter MACBETH Exeunt Exit eyes familiar spirits father fear Fleance friends gallowglasses GENT give Glamis grace hail Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven HECATE Holinshed honour instruments of darkness King Lear king of Scotland knocking LADY MACD LADY MACDUFF LENOX lives look lord MACB Macduff Malcolm Malcolm II means mind murder murther nature night noble old SIWARD Palace passage poor pray ROSSE Saxon SCENE Scotland SECOND MUR SECOND WITCH Servant shake Shakspere Shakspere's sleep soldier speak spirit strange strange matters sword thane of Cawdor thee There's thine things THIRD MUR THIRD WITCH thou art thought three Witches to-night traitor tyrant weird sisters wife word worthy thane wouldst ΙΟ
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Page 22 - Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis ; But how of Cawdor? the Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman ; and to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
Page 64 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse ; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 25 - 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 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 58 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife . Thou know'st, that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet; they are assailable; Then be thou jocund : Ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight ; ere, to black Hecate's summons, The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 22 - Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction Of noble having, and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal; to me you speak not: If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 42 - But wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen"? I had most need of blessing, and "Amen
Page 40 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 36 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 27 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 43 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M. What do you mean? 40 Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!" to all the house : "Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.