The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1George Dearborn, 1836 |
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... Banquo in the possession of the royal chair , horror is by our side , thrilling in our veins , and bristling in our hair . When we attend the Danish prince to his midnight conference with the shade of his mur- dered father , and hear ...
... Banquo in the possession of the royal chair , horror is by our side , thrilling in our veins , and bristling in our hair . When we attend the Danish prince to his midnight conference with the shade of his mur- dered father , and hear ...
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... Banquo atones for the ambitious curiosity which prompted him to wish to know his glorious descendants by an early death , as he thereby rouses Macbeth's jealousy ; but he preserved his mind pure from the bub- bles of the witches ; his ...
... Banquo atones for the ambitious curiosity which prompted him to wish to know his glorious descendants by an early death , as he thereby rouses Macbeth's jealousy ; but he preserved his mind pure from the bub- bles of the witches ; his ...
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... Banquo were appointed to the command of the army ; and Macdonwald , being obliged to take refuge in a castle in Lochaber , first slew his wife and children , and then himself . Macbeth , on entering the castle , finding his dead body ...
... Banquo were appointed to the command of the army ; and Macdonwald , being obliged to take refuge in a castle in Lochaber , first slew his wife and children , and then himself . Macbeth , on entering the castle , finding his dead body ...
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... Banquo ? Sold . Yes ; As sparrows , eagles ; or the hare , the lion . If I say sooth , I must report , they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks ; 8 So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe : Except they meant to bathe in ...
... Banquo ? Sold . Yes ; As sparrows , eagles ; or the hare , the lion . If I say sooth , I must report , they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks ; 8 So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe : Except they meant to bathe in ...
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... Banquo ! 1 Witch . Banquo , and Macbeth , all hail ! Mach . Stay , you imperfect speakers , tell me more : me , By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : -You should be women , And yet your beards forbid me to ...
... Banquo ! 1 Witch . Banquo , and Macbeth , all hail ! Mach . Stay , you imperfect speakers , tell me more : me , By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : -You should be women , And yet your beards forbid me to ...
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Page 368 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 33 - Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the muses...
Page 33 - Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Page 264 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, "Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
Page 327 - What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 54 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page 32 - Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but disproportioned Muses; For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Page 174 - Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 362 - Like the poor cat i' the adage ? Macb. . Pr'ythee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none. Lady M. What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me ? When you durst do it, then you were a man ; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place, Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck ; and know How tender...
Page 365 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.