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" 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 peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstacy. Duncan is... "
Macbeth. King John. King Richard II.-v. 2. King Henry IV. King Henry V.-v. 3 ... - Page 46
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The dramatic works of William Shakspere, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to Than on the torture of the mind to lie [pence, e, Like music. Cant. True: domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further ! Lady M. Come on : Gentle my lord, sleek o'er...
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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakespeare

Henry Reed - 1856 - 484 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...has done his worst ; nor steel nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further !" The silent rebuke of Banquo's better nature...
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The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 4

1858 - 656 pages
...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 ecstacy." Well might she feel it needful to urge upon him the policy of sleeking o'er his rugged looks, and of...
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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...has done his worst. Nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. LADY Come on, Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 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...Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, 25 Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Lady Macbeth Come on; Gentle my lord,...
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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 pages
...gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on | the tor|ture of) the mind to lie In rest|less ecstasy. | Duncan | is in | his grave; After | life's fit|ful...| has done | his worst: | nor steel, | nor poison, 245 25 Malice | domestic, foreign le|vy, nothing, Can touch | h1m further. (Macbeth. 3.2.13-26) The...
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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...has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Did the shadow of death pass across his brow...
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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...has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. Then, struck by the weird beauty of the lines,...
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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...has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further! (3.2.22-26) CHAPTER 6 Text Against Performance:...
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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...has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. (3. 2.. 22-26) There is, I think, a touch of...
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