...contemplated ; and therefore it is that he leaves the lady in ignorance of his intention, observing — "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed." Looking, then, at his forbearance on this occasion, we are inclined to agree with the critics " who...

...elevation. Thus, at least, by all that has preceded, are we led to interpret Macbeth's rejoinder — Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck. Till thou applaud the deed. It is only through a misapprehension, which unjustly lowers the generosity of her character, and unduly...

...night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. Lady M. What's to be done ? Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night ', Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And, with thy bloody and invisible...

...night's yawning peal, There shall be done a deed of dreadful note. Lady M. What's to be done ? МасЪ. think you are; I know what reason T have to think so : if thou shouldst Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with lliy bloody and invisible hand,...

...night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. Lady M, What's to be done 1 Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. — Come, seeling* night, Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And, with thy bloody and invisible...

...Hence, never doubting the applause with which the news of the crime would be received, he says, " ' Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed.' " Mrs. Jameson, at the conclusion of a beautiful parallel which she had drawn between the Electra of...

...night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. Lady M. What's to be done ? Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling 4 night, Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And, with thy bloody and invisible...

...night's yawning peal, There shall be done a deed of dreadful note. Lady M. What's to be done ? Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand,...

...sovereign, kinsman, and benefactor, he is chiefly anxious that she should not share the guilt of his blood : — ' Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest...the cant of criticism, it sounds at once queer and common-place. I seem to have heard it before many thousand times, and yet never to have heard it at...

...as a punishment of that selfishness, plunging still deeper in guilt and ruin. Ib. Macbeth's speech : Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. This is Macbeth's sympathy with his own feelings, and his mistaking his wife's opposite state. Ib....