 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,...  Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth - Page 27by William Shakespeare - 1877 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 336 pages
...; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it giv'n me the earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I'm Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion,...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? There is an obscurity and stiffness in part of these soliloquies, which I wish could be charged entirely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 440 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth t I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to...horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart9 knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 476 pages
...snccess, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor • If good, why do I yield to that snggestion! Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated $ heart knock at my ribs, Agaiust the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thonght, whose murder... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 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 suggestion 7 trusted home,] ie entirely, thoroughly relied on, or perhaps we should read thrusted home. 8 Might... | |
 | William Richardson - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1812 - 468 pages
...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...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Though virtuous principles appear in this instance to predominate, his ambition is not repulsed.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth i I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to...horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart9 knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 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...less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 pages
...be ill; cannot be good : If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth.'' [ am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that...less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, B Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise;... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 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...Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought whose murder is yet bnt fantastical Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smothered in surmise;... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1817 - 432 pages
...upon our pity as well as upon our horror, when he puts the following question to his conscience — Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my rihs Against the use of nature ? Now let us turn to Richard, in whose cruel heart no such remorse finds... | |
| |
