MacbethJ.B. Lippincott, 1915 - 566 pages |
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ABBOTT Æneid ambition Angus appears Banquo blood called Cawdor character CLARENDON Coll conj Cotgrave crime crown D'Av dagger death deed DELIUS drama Duncan Dunsinane Dyce Edition English Enter Macbeth et cet evil Exeunt expression eyes F₁ fear feeling Fleance Folio Ghost gives Hamlet hand hath haue Hecate Holinshed horror Huds husband imagination Johns JOHNSON King Ktly Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lenox Lord Macb Macd Macduff Mach Malcolm MALONE means mind murder Murtherers nature night passage perhaps play Poet Pope et seq present Roffe Ross Rowe et seq scene Scotland seems sense Shakespeare ſhall ſhould Siddons Sing sleep speak speech spirit Steev STEEVENS Thane Thane of Cawdor thee Theob things thou thought tion tragedy tragedy of Macbeth verb vnto vpon WALKER Warb weird sisters weyard wife witches woman word
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Page 93 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 481 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it, then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 416 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 160 - Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Page 362 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 471 - 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.
Page 508 - 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.
Page 151 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 136 - FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth : it was this : the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account: the effect was — that it reflected back upon the...
Page 80 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.