 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 pages
...his taking off: And pity like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hore'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other — Uow now ? what news I " Suppose Mr. Collier's corrected folio had given this passage as follows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 440 pages
...naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers1 of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'er-Ieaps itself, And falls on the other. — How now, what news ? Enftr Lady Macbeth. LadyJft. He... | |
 | 1854 - 400 pages
...coward's before some unknown danger—and which almost turned him away from hia purposed crime— " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side." The words arc scarcely spoken when the "spur to his intent" appears in the person of a character... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 594 pages
...Shall blow the horrid deed in everv eve. jj ~ That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To priek the sides of my intent ; but only Vaulting ambition,...itself, And falls on the other — How now? what news?" Suppose Mr. Collier's corrected folio had given this passage as follows ; — the variations from the... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1856 - 374 pages
...needs sufficient resolution to tread the slippery rounds of the ladder that leads to it. He says, " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other side." With the world generally Macbeth appears, in his early career, to have stood in good estimation,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...proper a man as any in Venice." — Shakspeare. P. 54. Whose overstrained striving o'erleaps, &c. — " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...Ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other." — Macbeth. P. 54. A Student enters. — This seene is a satire on the modes of instruction pursued... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 406 pages
...of his taking-off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...ambition, which o'erleaps itself," And falls on the other b — How now, what news ? a It has been proposed to read, instead of itself, its sell, its saddle.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off. Act i. Sc. 7. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other Act i. Sc. 7. I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Act i. Sc. 7. Letting I dare... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...a man as any in Venice." — ( Shakspeare.) 77. Whose overstrained striving o'erleaps, fyc.] — " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...Ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other." — (Macbeth.) 78. A Student enters.] — This scene is a satire on the modes of instruction pursued... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 734 pages
...meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu'd, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And...which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other.(») Enter Lady MACBETH. How now ! what news ? Lady M. He has almost supp'd : why have you left the chamber... | |
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Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off: And pity, like a naked new-born... 
