An essay on the character of Macbeth [in answer to an article in the Westminster review].1846 |
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... enormity of Macbeth's guilt in conceiving , under any circumstances , the crime he meditated , must still , we think , admit that it is altogether erro- neous to assert that the purpose of murdering * his royal kinsman was not suggested ...
... enormity of Macbeth's guilt in conceiving , under any circumstances , the crime he meditated , must still , we think , admit that it is altogether erro- neous to assert that the purpose of murdering * his royal kinsman was not suggested ...
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... the door , Not bear the knife myself . " These words display Macbeth's own consci- ousness of the enormity of the crime he medi- tates . The magnitude of the guilt is alluded to E 2 51 sage apart from the rest of the soliloquy, we ...
... the door , Not bear the knife myself . " These words display Macbeth's own consci- ousness of the enormity of the crime he medi- tates . The magnitude of the guilt is alluded to E 2 51 sage apart from the rest of the soliloquy, we ...
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... is the one great crime to the commission of which , as we have seen , Mac- beth feels a strong moral repugnance , while painting to himself the enormity of the guilt he would incur in the perpetration of so cowardly and treacherous 76.
... is the one great crime to the commission of which , as we have seen , Mac- beth feels a strong moral repugnance , while painting to himself the enormity of the guilt he would incur in the perpetration of so cowardly and treacherous 76.
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... enormity is the corollary , so to speak , of the cold - blooded murder which had preceded it ; and we can hardly wonder , when , for the attainment of an ambitious object , Macbeth has committed a sig- nally base and treacherous action ...
... enormity is the corollary , so to speak , of the cold - blooded murder which had preceded it ; and we can hardly wonder , when , for the attainment of an ambitious object , Macbeth has committed a sig- nally base and treacherous action ...
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... enormity , by virtue of the very same spirit that had made . her combat those which had withheld him from the one great crime which she had deemed neces- sary to his elevation . " But this answer is wholly unsatisfactory . Admitting ...
... enormity , by virtue of the very same spirit that had made . her combat those which had withheld him from the one great crime which she had deemed neces- sary to his elevation . " But this answer is wholly unsatisfactory . Admitting ...
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Seite 28 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 2 - Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
Seite 57 - Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. He that's coming Must be provided for : and you shall put This night's great business into my despatch : Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
Seite 98 - Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life , which must not yield To one of woman born.
Seite 74 - They hailed him father to a line of kings : Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Seite 90 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Seite 62 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Seite 17 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Seite 52 - 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...
Seite 43 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.