 | Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - 1977 - 116 pages
...fascinates Faustus. It is the inevitable, the irrevocable deed, after which he too dies in some sense : 21 I had liv'da blessed time: for from this instant,...renown and grace is dead, The wine of life is drawn — (n, iii, 40-53)" A period of intense and almost delirious anticipation is followed by complete... | |
 | Alan England - 1981 - 268 pages
...actor with a crucial choice of interpretation: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time ; for from this instant There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Is the character genuinely appalled by what he has done or is he putting on an act? Should he try to... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...here a private utterance or a public speech."20 Colons again release the flow of subliminal images: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (91-96) Macbeth has placed the poisoned chalice to his own lips, "taken" upon himself the "present... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...one red. (II, ii) POETRY QUOTATIONS 400 109 Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a i) 128 Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls...the wasted brands do glow. Whilst the screech-owl, (II, iii) 1 10 What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...seriousness, Kierkegaard cites the following lines by Macbeth, uttered just after Duncan's murder: From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality:...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (CA, 146; cf. Macbeth 2.3.92-96) Kierkegaard sees Macbeth as the tragedy of a man who slays his own... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - 1992 - 68 pages
...lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality. countenance : look at All is but toys, renown and grace is dead, The wine...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. fMalcolm and Donalbain come on the scene) Donalbain. What is amiss? Macbeth. You are, and do not know... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1993 - 414 pages
...und König heimtückisch ermordet hat, vor dem Hofstaat zu einer heuchlerischen Klagerede ansetzt: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II.iii.91-96)55 In dieser lamentalio des Mörders über den Tod seines Opfers handelt es sich ohne... | |
 | Valerie Wayne, Cornelia Niekus Moore - 1993 - 122 pages
...those qualities which make life happy and worthwhile. He bemoans his predicament: From this insunt There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys....drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II, iii. 94-98) Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) is a loose adaptation of Macbeth. However, it is... | |
 | Robert L. Perkins - 2000 - 320 pages
...captures this sense of loss of seriousness in Macbeth's cry of anguish on having murdered the king. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (Macbeth II.3.96-101) This passage is quoted by Vigilius Haufniensis (CA, 146). strength. I for my... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...suffering that he is already beginning to undergo: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (2.3.90-5) At this stage we still hear some of the hyperbole of conscious dissimulation; later comes... | |
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. 
