 Cannot be ill; cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against...  Macbeth: A Tragedy in Five Acts - Page 11by William Shakespeare - 1847 - 60 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 370 pages
...following question to his conscience— Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth untix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Now let us turn to Richard, in whose cruel heart no such remorse finds place: he needs no tempter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...Macbeth cannot be palliated, since what he says could not have been spoken by any other. NOTE VII. THE thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, - • The single state of man seems to be used by Shakespeare for an individual, in opposition to a... | |
 | Phrenology - 1824 - 720 pages
...; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing ma truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that...Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not. It appears from this opening, that the ambition... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 486 pages
...; cannot be good. — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? 1 am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that...fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that t'unctioa Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not. Ban, Look, how our partner's rapt.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane ofCawdor. Ifgood, why dolyield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix...Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not. l!ni'. Look, how our partner's rapt! Macb.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...it given me earnest of success, Commencing iu a truth? I am thane of Cawdor. If good, why do lyield Ernst Fleischer bnt fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ?" Similar bloody purposes were suggested to his mind on Malcolm's elevation, — " Stars, hide your... | |
 | Classical philology - 1824 - 448 pages
...nature, is a paradise To what we fear in death. 9. ^Esch. Prom. Vinct. 906. Shakspeare. Macbeth, i. 3. Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? 1O. Eurip. Alcest. 203. xXaei y, axoiriv iv ^epoTv ^/Ai KCti JJ.YJ TTgoSoSval XlV(76T«(. Barry Cornwall.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that...unfix my hair, And make my seated* heart knock at my riba. Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imap'nings : My thought, whose... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 344 pages
...Why hath it given me earnest of success Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, tvhy do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ?" Similar bloody purposes were suggested to his mind on Malcolm's elevation, — " Stars, hide your... | |
| |
