 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2003 - 60 pages
...and done with. We have scorched the snake, not killed it. Our problems aren't over. Better bev/ith the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie lr\ restless ecstasy. We killed Duncan to get to where We are, but nothing could be worse than lying... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...only weeks before his assassination, with deep feeling he read to his fellow passengers the words: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason had done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.... | |
 | C. A. Meier - Aesculapius (Greek deity) - 2003 - 178 pages
...helpful to the dying also; he could cure men of "the fever called living" (cf. Macbeth III. ii. 22-23: "Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. . ."). An Orphic hymn to Asclepius confirms this: Come, blessed one, helper, give to life a noble ending.41... | |
 | 2004 - 428 pages
...Lady Macbeth : Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers, (ii, ii, 45-50) Macbeth ($-*. $-#• 45-50 If) Better be with the dead Whom we, to gain our peace,...his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well, (in, H, 19-23) (^^^' *-*• 19-23 ft) Witches = Double, double, toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron... | |
 | Robert Garis - Performing Arts - 2004 - 204 pages
...nature she knows well - from the depths of which he later on speaks to her with poignant frankness: the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake...the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (III. ii. i 8-22) After all of Welles's cutting, a couple of lines were left over that he wanted to... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2004 - 380 pages
...let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead. (3.2.15-21) When the basis of Macbeth s knowledge - observation, reason, logic, surveillance - turns... | |
 | Franco Ferrucci - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 218 pages
...noi: alla fine del terzo atto i giorni di Macbeth sono ormai contati: Bei ter he with the dead, Wbom we to gain our peace have sent to peace, Than on the torture ofthe mindto lie In restless ecstasy. [ffl, ii, 2 1-24] È meglio essere colui che abbiamo mandato... | |
 | John Russell Brown - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake...the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (III. ii.l 6-22) The banquet scene, with its fear and confusion - the Ghost of Banquo being seen by... | |
 | 2005 - 68 pages
...and earth and will never be free from fear or at peace, awake or asleep. Better be with the dead, 20 Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie ln restless ecstacy. Duncan's in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 260 pages
...these terrible dreams That shake us20 nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we,21 to gain our peace,22 have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.23 Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful24 fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his... | |
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But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on... 
