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... passage with modern spelling and punctuation . We learn from it that Dr. Forman saw Macbeth for the first time on April 20 , 1610 . In all pro- bability it was then a new play , otherwise he would scarcely have been at the pains to make ...
... passage with modern spelling and punctuation . We learn from it that Dr. Forman saw Macbeth for the first time on April 20 , 1610 . In all pro- bability it was then a new play , otherwise he would scarcely have been at the pains to make ...
Page viii
... passages in Middleton's play which sound like. In p . 314 : - ' For the maid servants and the girls o ' th ' house I spiced them lately with a drowsy posset . ' Compare Macbeth , ii . 2. 5 , 6 . In p . 329 : - ' Hec . Come my sweet ...
... passages in Middleton's play which sound like. In p . 314 : - ' For the maid servants and the girls o ' th ' house I spiced them lately with a drowsy posset . ' Compare Macbeth , ii . 2. 5 , 6 . In p . 329 : - ' Hec . Come my sweet ...
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William Shakespeare William George Clark, William Aldis Wright. There are other passages in Middleton's play which sound like faint echoes of Shakespeare , and there is a strong general likeness between the witches of the two dramas ...
William Shakespeare William George Clark, William Aldis Wright. There are other passages in Middleton's play which sound like faint echoes of Shakespeare , and there is a strong general likeness between the witches of the two dramas ...
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... passage to any one but the master himself . There is , however , a conspicuous falling - off in lines 39-47 , after the entrance of Hecate . In iii . 5. 13 it is said that Macbeth ' loves for his own ends , not for you ; ' but in the ...
... passage to any one but the master himself . There is , however , a conspicuous falling - off in lines 39-47 , after the entrance of Hecate . In iii . 5. 13 it is said that Macbeth ' loves for his own ends , not for you ; ' but in the ...
Page xi
... passages , where Macbeth's desperation is interrupted by fits of despondency . How much better the sense is without ... passages are not in Shakespeare's manner , because their notion of Shakespeare's manner is partly based on the ...
... passages , where Macbeth's desperation is interrupted by fits of despondency . How much better the sense is without ... passages are not in Shakespeare's manner , because their notion of Shakespeare's manner is partly based on the ...
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Angus Antony and Cleopatra Banquo blood called castle Compare King Lear Compare Richard Compare The Merchant conjectured Coriolanus Cotgrave Cymbeline death deed derived Dict DONALBAIN Duncan Dunsinane Dyce emendation England enimies Enter MACBETH Exeunt fear Fleance folios French gives hail Hamlet hand Hanmer hath haue heaven Hecate Henry Holinshed honour Johnson Julius Cæsar King John King Lear Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox lord Malcolm Malone means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream murder nature noble numbers Othello passage play Pope read quotes Romeo and Juliet Ross sayde scene Scotland Second Witch sense Seyton Shakespeare Siward slain sleep speak spelt Steevens strange syllable Tempest thane thane of Cawdor thee theyr things Third Witch thou thought Timon of Athens Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night verb vnto vpon weird sisters wife Winter's Tale word ΙΟ
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Page 156 - fraught,' ' press'd.' Others, retaining 'stuff'd,' would alter 'stuff' to 'grief,' or 'matter,' or ' slough, ' or • freight.' 46. /'// none of it. The omission of the verb adds to the emphasis of the phrase. So Proverbs, i. 25 : ' But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof.
Page 74 - a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 10 - Banquo. That trusted home 120 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macbeth. [Aside] Two truths are told,
Page 74 - the proportion, the due proportion, as in Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. 87: ' The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order.
Page 43 - Doctor. Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand, They presently amend. Malcolm. I thank you, doctor. [Exit Doctor. Macduff. What's the disease he means? Malcolm. 'Tis call'd the evil:
Page 11 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, 11 had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN.
Page 159 - rouse, intransitive, as in iii. 2. 53. 13. As, as if. Compare King Lear, iii. 4. 15 : ' Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to 't?' For the sense of the passage compare Hamlet, iii. 4. 121: * Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Starts up, and stands an end.
Page 7 - Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! the charm's wound up. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO. Macbeth. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.