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" 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... "
Macbeth - Page 136
by William Shakespeare - 1915 - 566 pages
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3

1823 - 584 pages
...their objects in their test elements of civic respectability. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth. FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...and a depth of solemnity: yet, however obstinately I endeavoured with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1823 - 696 pages
...mere naked doctrine, in and for itself, is but a meagre truth. ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH. tan buen santo que maņana viene la muerte, comamos, bebamos huerte, tor which I never could account : the effect was — that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: on the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...criticism, tho latter of his lively and graphic description : — THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE, (IX MACBETH.) From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulncss and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my understanding to...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...of his lively and graphic deseription : — THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE, (IN MACBETH.) From my hoyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macheth. It was this : the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to...
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“The” Works of Thomas De Quincey: The art of conversation

Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 352 pages
...together as elements equally essential of the mysterious universe. ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH. FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murderer a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity ; yet, however obstinately I endeavoured with...
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De Quincey's Works, Volume 13

Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 340 pages
...together as elements equally essential of the mysterious universe. ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETa FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murderer a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity ; yet, however obstinately I endeavoured with...
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The Art of Conversation and Other Papers

Thomas De Quincey - Conversation - 1863 - 346 pages
...together as elements equally essential of the mysterious universe. ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH. FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murderer a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity ; yet, however obstinately I endeavoured with...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...Duncan wife thy knocking ! I would thou couldst SHAKSPKARK. 196. THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE, IN MACBKTU. FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...feelings an effect for which I never could account. The •jfiect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulnes-s and a depth of solemnity;...
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The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater ..., Volume 13

Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 506 pages
...together as elements equally essential of the mysterious universe. ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH. FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which 1 never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murderer a peculiar awfulness...
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Logic of political economy and other papers

Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 514 pages
...together as elements equally essential of the mysterious universe. ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH. FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity...Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which 1 never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murderer a peculiar awfulness...
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