Shakespere's Tragedy of MacbethD. Appleton, 1907 - 193 pages |
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Abbott ambition Apparition APPLETON AND COMPANY Banquo beth blood CAITHNESS castle character of Macbeth Clarendon crime crown daggers dare death deed devil died hereafter dissyllabic Doctor Donalbain drama Duncan Dunsinane Edited EDMUND GOSSE EDWARD DOWDEN English Enter MACBETH Exeunt Exit eyes fate fear feel Fleance Gentlewoman ghost give grace hail hand hath heart heaven Hecate Helen Faucit Holinshed honour horror horse human husband impulse to evil instruments of darkness king king of Scotland knocking Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox Literature lord Malcolm mind moral nature night noble passion pity play prophecy quoted by Furness reader remorse Ross ruin Scene Scotland Second Witch sense Seyton Shakespeare Shakspere Shakspere's Siward sleep soldier soul speak speech spirit strange terrible thane of Cawdor thee things Third Witch thou thought tragedy of Macbeth tragic fault weird sisters wife woman words
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Page 80 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed...
Page 154 - The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that : you mar all with this starting.
Page 85 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 151 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were , That were most precious to me.
Page 136 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done. The castle of Macduff I will surprise ; Seize upon Fife ; give to the edge o' the sword His wife, his babes,...
Page 78 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone." Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 113 - 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 129 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches...
Page 82 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
Page 163 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time : And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.