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" Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is it night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth intomb, When living light should kiss it ? Old M. 'Tis unnatural,... "
Specimens of Greek and Latin verse: chiefly translations - Page 70
by Charles Rann Kennedy - 1853 - 154 pages
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Schriften aus der Berliner Zeit, 1800-1802

Friedrich Schleiermacher - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 740 pages
...4,367; Works 6,11)3,14 24 Vgl. Shakespeare/Schiller: Macbeth 63-6Í; Schiller: Werke 13,109,902110,926 Is it night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth ¡ntomb, When living light should kiß it? aber man wünscht sie doch zurück, wenn man sich ihrer...
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Malevolent Nurture: Witch-hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England

Deborah Willis - History - 1995 - 284 pages
...confident assertion that such "unnatural" events may be read as signs of God's displeasure into a question: by the clock 'Tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living...
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Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth

Garry Wills - Drama - 1995 - 238 pages
...Threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock tis day, And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp. Is't night's predominance or the day's shame That darkness does the face of earth entomb When living light should kiss it? Night's predominance is an astrological term, suggesting a...
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Shakespeare in Theory: The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater

Stephen Bretzius - Drama - 1997 - 180 pages
...light” [1.3.403—4]), King Lear (“These late eclipses in the sun and moon” [1.2.103]), and Macbeth (“By the clock ‘tis day, / And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp”). If, at the traditional midpoint of Shakespeare's dramatic trajectory, Hamlet represents the virtual...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...Threatens his bloody stage. By th'clock 'tis day And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb When living light should kiss it? OLD MAN 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On...
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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature

John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...Threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? (2.4.5-10) It is implicit, too, in Macbeth's tortured conscience:...
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Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium

Psychology - 420 pages
...seems to be contaminated: by th' clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. (act. 2,...
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English Literature for AQA A

Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 196 pages
...Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? This speech, from a relatively minor character, and not in...
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Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental

John Sallis - Philosophy - 2000 - 258 pages
...Threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock ‘tis day, And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp: [st night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of the earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? (II.iv.4—so) The old man replies: ‘Tis unnatural,...
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Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental

John Sallis - Philosophy - 2000 - 262 pages
...Threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of the earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? The old man replies: 'Tis unnatural, Even like...
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