 Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 314by William Shakespeare - 1813 - 913 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1857
...hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come,(13) you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from...access and passage to remorse ; That no compunctious visi tings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it ! Come to my woman's... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - Performing Arts - 1992 - 214 pages
...experience of the words she will reveal the struggle as it unfolds: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from...top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse . . . Remorse lies in the heart, which is the repository of pure,... | |
 | Robert Pogue Harrison - Nature - 2009 - 304 pages
...remorse, carry out her murderous plot against the king of Scotland: . . . Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from...top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 174 pages
...kindness." The will to transgress against nature, one's own nature, is an obsession of the play. . . . Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage...visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between The effect and it! (1.5.47-51) The rhetoric rises toward hysteria. Macbeth's final line... | |
 | Russ McDonald - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 301 pages
...hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 128 pages
...hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor... | |
 | Sue-Ellen Case - Social Science - 1996 - 276 pages
...here °^ ' and the (repeating unsex me here ) Beast And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the...visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breast, And take my milk my gall you murdering... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 326 pages
...phrases this unsexing as the undoing of her own bodily maternal function: Come, you Spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from...top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose, nor... | |
 | Nina Auerbach - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 504 pages
...raises the same sort of puzzlement about a woman's power of being bad: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. And fill me from the...access and passage to remorse. That no compunctious visi tings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1997 - 625 pages
...crucifixion, following the custom at Passover. (Matthew 27). Cruelty 1 Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th 'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose,... | |
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