 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...the little ones. 33 — ii. 1. 453 O, how full of briars is this working-day world ! 10— i. 3. 454 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. 15— iii. 2. 455 Here's such ado to make no stain a stain, As passes colouring. 13 — ii. 2. 456... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pages
...must hide what the false heart doth know. 47. In a false quarrel there is no true valor. 48. 'T is safer to be that which we destroy, Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. 49. .Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks. 50. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill... | |
 | Isabella Frances Romer - 1841 - 622 pages
...beheld not her husband, but Sturmer ! CHAPTER IX. Nought "s had, all 's spent, Where our desire is got without content : "Tis safer to be that which...destroy, Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. Macbeth. IF in the overwhelming surprise which then assailed Lolotte, her first distinct sensation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 pages
...him. Servant Madam, I will. [He goes] Lady Macbeth Nought's had, all's spent, 5 Where our desire is got without content: Tis safer to be that which we...alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making, 10 Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? Things without all remedy... | |
 | Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely - 1980 - 364 pages
...visited by the remorse and sorrow she had hoped to banish: Naught's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we...destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. (m.ii.4-7) Lady Macbeth's existence now is circumscribed by the present memory of past loss. Absent... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - 1986 - 286 pages
...voices something like a superficial moral of the tragedy: Naught's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content. Tis safer to be that which we...destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. (111.2.4-7) The rhyming simplicity of this orthodox commonplace would be more fitting for a pathetic... | |
 | John R. Briggs - 1988 - 82 pages
...do you keep alone? Things beyond all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done. MACBETH. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. FUJIN MACBETH. Naught's gained, all's spent, where our desire is got without content. MACBETH. We have... | |
 | Anna Julia Cooper - 1988 - 366 pages
...meanness of inflicting one ruthless, cruel wrong. 'Tis not only safer, but nobler, grander, diviner, " To be that which we destroy Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy." With this platform to stand on we can with clear eye weigh what is written and estimate what is done... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...few words. SERVANT Madam, I will. Exit LADY MACBETH Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content ; 'Tis safer to be that which...alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making, 10 Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on ? Things without all... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pages
...Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are scarcely together after Duncan's murder — Lady Macbeth complains to him, "How now, my lord ! Why do you keep alone, / Of sorriest fancies your companions making" (3.2.9-10). After Banquo's murder and the disastrous banquet, Macbeth and his wife are never alone,... | |
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Enter MACBETH. How now, my lord ? why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making ? Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on ? Things without all remedy, Should be without regard : what's done is done. 
