MacbethClarendon Press, 1876 - 180 pages |
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... king's accession , because an event of such great moment and such permanent consequences would long continue to be present to the minds of men . In act ii . sc . 3 , in the Porter's speech , b Malone believed that the mention of the ...
... king's accession , because an event of such great moment and such permanent consequences would long continue to be present to the minds of men . In act ii . sc . 3 , in the Porter's speech , b Malone believed that the mention of the ...
Page vi
... king of Codor , for thou shall be a king , but shall beget no kings , & c . Then said Banquo , What , all to Macbeth and nothing to me ? Yes , said the nymphs , Hail , to thee , Banquo ; thou shall beget kings , yet be no king . And so ...
... king of Codor , for thou shall be a king , but shall beget no kings , & c . Then said Banquo , What , all to Macbeth and nothing to me ? Yes , said the nymphs , Hail , to thee , Banquo ; thou shall beget kings , yet be no king . And so ...
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... king , and then he for fear of Banquo , his old com- panion , that he should beget kings but be no king himself , he contrived the death of Banquo , and caused him to be murdered on the way as he rode . The next night , being at supper ...
... king , and then he for fear of Banquo , his old com- panion , that he should beget kings but be no king himself , he contrived the death of Banquo , and caused him to be murdered on the way as he rode . The next night , being at supper ...
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... king may kindly say Our duties did his welcome pay , ' cannot be Shakespeare's . In iv . 3 , lines 140-159 , which relate to the touching for the evil , were probably interpolated previous to a representation at X PREFACE .
... king may kindly say Our duties did his welcome pay , ' cannot be Shakespeare's . In iv . 3 , lines 140-159 , which relate to the touching for the evil , were probably interpolated previous to a representation at X PREFACE .
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... King James visited Oxford in 1605 , a Latin play or interlude , on the subject of Macbeth , was performed in his presence . This , Farmer thinks , may have suggested the sub- ject to Shakespeare . Doubtless Holinshed supplied to the ...
... King James visited Oxford in 1605 , a Latin play or interlude , on the subject of Macbeth , was performed in his presence . This , Farmer thinks , may have suggested the sub- ject to Shakespeare . Doubtless Holinshed supplied to the ...
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adjective Anglo-Saxon Antony and Cleopatra Banquo blood called castell Compare Antony 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 Fairfax's Tasso fear Fleance French gives Hamlet hand Hanmer hath haue heaven Hecate Henry Holinshed honour Johnson Julius Cæsar King John King Lear Knocking Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox lord Malcolm Malone means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream murder nature noble Othello passage play Pope read quotes Romeo and Juliet Ross sayde scene Scotland Second Witch sense Shakespeare Sidney Walker Siward slain sleep speak spelt Steevens syllable Tempest thane of Cawdor thee theyr things thou thought Timon of Athens Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night verb vnto vpon weird sisters wife Winter's Tale word
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Page 2 - Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page xl - My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction Of noble having, and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal ; to me you speak not ; If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, (1) A man forbid, — one under a curse, accursed.
Page 3 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ' Hold, hold !
Page 35 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 2 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Page 24 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly...
Page 5 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 66 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your...
Page 5 - 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. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 1 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it'; And that which rather thou dost fear to do 22 Than wishest should be undone.