 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 544 pages
...trusted home,t Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor : liut 'tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. — Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb. Two truths are told, As happy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 550 pages
...trusted home,t Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor : But 'tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.— Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb. Two truths are told, As happy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...trusted home, Might yet enkindle* you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. — Cousins, a word, I pray you. Mach. Two truths are told As happy... | |
 | Adam Weiner - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 344 pages
...admonition to Macbeth about the prophetic narrative of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters: " 'tis strange; / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments...darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray s / In deepest consequence" (act 1, scene 3). The remainder of this chapter charts some possible... | |
 | Drama - 1999 - 62 pages
...blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. BANQUO. 'Tis strange. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. MACBETH. But ...King. (MACBETH and BANQUO confer silently.) ANNA.... | |
 | Melanie Krämer - Opera - 2000 - 190 pages
...Ereignisse im Gegensatz zu Macbeth aus einer kritischen Distanz heraus beurteilen kann: ,3ut 'tis strange: / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments...Darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray's / In deepest consequence." (I, iii, 122-124) Mit diesen Zeilen spricht er, ohne es zu ahnen,... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...diabolic, since the Devil can tell the truth to suit his purposes. As Banquo says in Macbeth: . . . oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.2 Nevertheless, on seeing Claudius's dismay and on hearing Claudius's... | |
 | Martin Harries - Philosophy - 2000 - 236 pages
...Duncan and the witches. One could say that Banquo offers the play's moral when he warns Macbeth: . . . oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 14 Harry Berger, Jr., writes: "Note here that Banquo has intercepted and expropriated the nature-image... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...explanation of how Cawdor's robes became vacant, he cautions an excited Macbeth, "But 'tis strange: / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments...Darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betrays / In deepest consequence" (1.3.122-6). Clearly, then, he understands these "instruments" to... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...kings, When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me Promised no less to them?17 BANQUO Tis strange: and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. MACBETH (aside) Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through... | |
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tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. 
