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" Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. "
The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare - Page 366
by William Shakespeare - 1836
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Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls ..., Volume 221

William Shakespeare - 1863 - 166 pages
...to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstacy.f Duncan is in his grave After life's fitful fever he...foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further ! Lady 3f. Come on ; Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks : Be bright and jovial among your guests...
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The National Review, Volume 17

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 580 pages
...to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever,...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further ! ' Here is one of those cases where he uses his poetry as a cloak to his real thoughts. Yet despite...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - 1967 - 212 pages
...to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. LADY Come on, Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks, Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight....
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pages
...to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After life's fitful fever,...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. 30 LADY M. Come on: Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks, Be bright and jovial among your guests...
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Lincoln in American Memory

Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 pages
...author, Shakespeare. He loved Macbeth above all the other plays and from it spoke the pensive lines: Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Did the shadow of death pass across his brow as he uttered these words? Poets and philosophers might...
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Lincoln

David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pages
...nightly: better be with the dead . . . Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. Then, struck by the weird beauty of the lines, Lincoln paused, as Chambrun recalled, and "began to...
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Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...who seems best to understand, and most to sympathize with, the old king should have the last word: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further! (3.2.22-26) CHAPTER 6 Text Against Performance: The Example of 'Macbeth' Rene Girard once observed...
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Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays

Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 pages
...gash / Is added to her wounds" (3.3.40-41). Duncan, meanwhile, is beyond the reach of Macbeth's sword: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. (3. 2.. 22-26) There is, I think, a touch of envy in this speech. Macbeth's life is a "fitful fever",...
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The Legacy of the Civil War

Robert Penn Warren - 1998 - 132 pages
...peculiar — not words about the ambitious and murderous Macbeth, but words about the good dead victim: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. What comes over to us in this strange moment is no easy applicability, schematically perfect, to the...
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Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure

J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - 1999 - 460 pages
...moved, and moving, with the verses in "Macbeth" in which Macbeth speaks of Duncan's assassination: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.9 With Lincoln, the play was the thing, not the acting, and in the play it was the thought...
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