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" 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 !  "
Macbeth, from the text of S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised - Page 15
by William Shakespeare - 1784
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 74

1853 - 816 pages
...Lady Macbeth, revolving the murder of Duncan, says, " Come, thick night, And pall thee in thedunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the night, To cry, Hold 1 hold!" The darkness prayed for is...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 36

1834 - 918 pages
...nor is there any smothering with kisses. " Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest arauke 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! Great Glamls ! worthy Cawdor...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 362 pages
...Supernatural. And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief; Come, thick night,...hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, Hold! Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out amidst his emptions into a wish natural to a murderer ; Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murtheriug ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the duunest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night t And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen kuife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold, hold...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 422 pages
...king, he breaks out 166 THE RAMBLER. No. 168. amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer: Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold 1 In this passage is exerted...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 11

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...in A Warning for Faire Women, 1599, a tragedy which was certainly prior to Macbeth : And pall thee 2 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 4, " O sable night, sit on the eye of heaven, " That...
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The Observer, Volume 2

Richard Cumberland - 1822 - 372 pages
...luvu-ts, And take my milk fur gall, you murthering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief : come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell! Terrible invocation ! Tragedy. can speak no stronger language, nor could any genius less than Shakspeare's...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...milk for gall, you murdring ministers, 1 Wherever in your sightless substances I You wait on nature s mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall} thee in the...! That my keen knife| see not the wound it makes; [dark, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the To cry, Hold, Hold! Great 'Glamis ! worthy Cawdor...
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