 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...for he is good to us," is not inharmonious ; every second word is unaccented. So in Macbeth :— " Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." In ordinary cases, melody arises through the alternation of long and short words. A succession of long... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...the first of three similar adjurations, of various expression, but almost equal poetic beauty : — " Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black...hand, yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is dono, to see ! " In the very next scene, we have the invocation to darkness with which Lady Macbeth... | |
 | 1867 - 520 pages
...expression, but almost equal poetic beauty : — " Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my Mack and deep desires ! The eye wink at the hand, yet let...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see ! " In the very next scene, we have tho invocation to darkness with which Lady Macbeth closes her terrible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 444 pages
...Macb. [aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step, On which 1 must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars , hide your fires ; Let...commendations I am fed, — It is a banquet to me. Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: It in a peerless kinsman. [Flourish.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1869 - 140 pages
...step On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires 1 Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye...: he is full so valiant; And in his commendations 3 I am fed,— 1 The Prince of Cumberland] Holinshed says that Duncan made the elder of his sons '... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...passage from Shakspere's ' Macbeth ' : — ' That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, Let...be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.' In this passage, out of fifty-two words, we have but two dissyllables — 'o'erleap,' a compound Saxon... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 434 pages
...passage from Shakspere's ' Macbeth ' : — ' That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, Let...be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.' In this passage, out of fifty-two words, we have but two dissyllables — ' o'erleap,' a compound Saxon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Regicides - 1869 - 234 pages
...step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; 50 Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye...Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [Exit. Duncan. True, worthy Banquo ; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; It is a banquet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 306 pages
...the rest. The prince of Cumberland!—That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap; For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let...Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [Exit. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth's Castle. Enter Lady MACBETH, reading a Letter. Lady Macbeth. TEYmet me... | |
 | Dennis Bartholomeusz - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 336 pages
...Step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap; For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires 1 Let not light see my black and deep desires ; The...that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.1 Following Rowe2 and Theobald,3 Garrick introduced the mark of exclamation and the ominous pause... | |
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The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is... 
