 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...explained into any sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk — the present horror of the time! That now suits with it Macbeth has, in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | England - 1842 - 840 pages
...personification of murder, not perhaps very appropriately, with the rarishing strides of Tarquin. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, A ad take the present horror from the time, Which now tititf u-ilh it." Why should a murderer be solicitous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | 1824 - 984 pages
...— the beginning and concluding lines im^ mediately suggest these as their respective prototypes : Thou sure and firm-set earth Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout— And Come, thkk uigUt, And pall thee in Ibe dünnest smoke... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With Tarjjuin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereTabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...stealthy pace, With (2) Tarquin's ravishing sides ftovf'rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time. That now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...stealthy pace, With (2) Tarquin's ravishing sides, tow' rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my wheve-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time, That now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...stealthy pace, With (2) Tarqwiu's ravishing sides, tow' rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear. The very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from t/te time, That now suits... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. 4 — Whiles I threat, he lives;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
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Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps... 
