Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page xvii
... blood with horror , possessed , at the same time , the insinuating loveliness of the sweetest poetry . He plays with love like a child ; and his songs are breathed out like melting sighs . He unites in his genius the utmost elevation ...
... blood with horror , possessed , at the same time , the insinuating loveliness of the sweetest poetry . He plays with love like a child ; and his songs are breathed out like melting sighs . He unites in his genius the utmost elevation ...
Page 13
... blood- boultered Banquo " stand before us ; all that passed through the mind of Macbeth passes , without the loss of a tittle , through ours . All that could actually take place , and all that is only possible to be conceived , what was ...
... blood- boultered Banquo " stand before us ; all that passed through the mind of Macbeth passes , without the loss of a tittle , through ours . All that could actually take place , and all that is only possible to be conceived , what was ...
Page 15
... blood , Stop up the access and passage to remorse , That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose , nor keep peace between The effect and it . Come to my woman's breasts , And take my milk for gall , you murthering ...
... blood , Stop up the access and passage to remorse , That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose , nor keep peace between The effect and it . Come to my woman's breasts , And take my milk for gall , you murthering ...
Page 16
... blood display of passion , exhibit a striking contrast to the cold , abstracted , gratuitous , servile malignity of the Witches , who are equally instrumental in urging Macbeth to his fate for the mere love of mischief , and from a ...
... blood display of passion , exhibit a striking contrast to the cold , abstracted , gratuitous , servile malignity of the Witches , who are equally instrumental in urging Macbeth to his fate for the mere love of mischief , and from a ...
Page 19
... vengeance against the defenceless king , her thoughts spare the blood neither of infants nor old age . The descrip- tion of the Witches is full of the same contradictory principle ; they " rejoice when good kings bleed , Macbeth 19.
... vengeance against the defenceless king , her thoughts spare the blood neither of infants nor old age . The descrip- tion of the Witches is full of the same contradictory principle ; they " rejoice when good kings bleed , Macbeth 19.
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