Tragedy of Macbeth: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath & Company, 1883 |
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... question , that consid- erable portions of Macbeth were not written by Shakespeare . I have been very slow and reluctant to admit this conclu- sion ; but the evidence , it seems to me , is not to be with- stood . It is , moreover ...
... question , that consid- erable portions of Macbeth were not written by Shakespeare . I have been very slow and reluctant to admit this conclu- sion ; but the evidence , it seems to me , is not to be with- stood . It is , moreover ...
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... question respecting them is , whether and how far they have that truth to Nature , that organic proportion and self - consistency , which the laws of Art require . The Weird Sisters . Thomas Middleton has a play called The Witch ...
... question respecting them is , whether and how far they have that truth to Nature , that organic proportion and self - consistency , which the laws of Art require . The Weird Sisters . Thomas Middleton has a play called The Witch ...
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... questions that may fairly claim to be considered in any attempt to in- terpret the drama . Probably no form of superstition ever prevailed to much extent , but that it had a ground and principle of truth . The old system of witchcraft ...
... questions that may fairly claim to be considered in any attempt to in- terpret the drama . Probably no form of superstition ever prevailed to much extent , but that it had a ground and principle of truth . The old system of witchcraft ...
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... question them further . " Fears and scruples as to the consequence still shake him : a general pledge of security is not enough : he craves to know further how and whence the means of safety are to come ; his faith in the Weird promise ...
... question them further . " Fears and scruples as to the consequence still shake him : a general pledge of security is not enough : he craves to know further how and whence the means of safety are to come ; his faith in the Weird promise ...
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... Why is this ? The question is at least not a little curious . The diction is of the very plainest and simplest texture ; yet what an impression of sublimity it carries ! In fact , I suspect the matter is INTRODUCTION . 43.
... Why is this ? The question is at least not a little curious . The diction is of the very plainest and simplest texture ; yet what an impression of sublimity it carries ! In fact , I suspect the matter is INTRODUCTION . 43.
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56 cents 65 cents Antony and Cleopatra Banquo Birnam blood called castle character Coleridge Collier's second folio conscience crown dagger dare death deed died hereafter Doct Donalbain Duncan Dunsinane Enter MACBETH evil Exeunt Exit eyes Faerie Queene Falstaff fear fight Fleance foot-note Forres foul Gentlew ghost gives Glamis guilt hail Hamlet hand hath hear heart Heaven Hecate Holinshed honour Introduction Price Italic type Julius Cæsar King Knocking Lady Macbeth look lord Macb Macbeth and Banquo Macd Macduff Mailing Price Malcolm means Middleton mind moral murder nature night noble ordinary witches passage perfect spy play Poet probably Queen Ross scene Scotland seems sense Shake Shakespeare SIWARD sleep speak speech spirit strange sure sword terrible terrors Thane of Cawdor thee thing thou thought to-morrow tragedy truth tyrant Weird Sisters wife Witch word wouldst
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Seite 122 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Seite 81 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest : I see thee still ; And on thy blade, and dudgeon,* gouts of blood, Which was not so before. — There's no such thing ; It is the bloody business, which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Seite 149 - tis time to do't. — Hell is murky ! — Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard ? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account ? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him ? Doct. Do you mark that ? Lady At. The thane of Fife had a wife : where is she now ? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord ; no more o' that : you mar all with this starting.
Seite 75 - Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself ? hath it slept since, And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire ? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting " I dare not" wait upon " I would," Like the poor cat i
Seite 84 - Who was it that thus cried ? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things : — Go, get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. — Why did you bring these daggers from -the place ? They must lie there : go carry them ; and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. Macb. . I'll go no more : I am afraid to think what I have done ; Look on't again, I dare not.
Seite 57 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Seite 96 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 114 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Seite 78 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Seite 105 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.