 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 674 pages
...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,...lees Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALRAIN. DON. What is amiss ? MACR. You are, and do not know 't, The spring, the head : the fountain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 544 pages
...contradict thyself, And say, it is not so. San. Too cruel, any where,—— Re-enter MACBETH and LENOX. d us, fashioning our humours Even to the opposed end of our intents • n: The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopp'd ; the very source of it is stopp'd.... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...maniacs worn out by their fits of rage: ' Had I but died an hour before this chance, 1 had lived a blessed time ; for, from this instant There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. ' 5 When rest has restored some force to the human machine, the fixed idea shakes him again, and drives... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 116 pages
...words which are meant to deceive but which curiously at the same time express his deepest feelings: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. 'Macbeth intends ', says Murry, 'the monstrous hypocrisy of a conventional lament for Duncan; but as... | |
 | Alan England - Drama - 1981 - 268 pages
...actor with a crucial choice of interpretation: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time ; for from this instant There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Is the character genuinely appalled by what he has done or is he putting on an act? Should he try to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...Macbeth Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant 100 There's nothing serious in mortality All is but toys:...this vault to brag of. [Enter Malcolm and Donalbain] Donalbain What is amiss? l°5 Macbeth You are, and do not know't: The spring, the head, the fountain... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...here a private utterance or a public speech."20 Colons again release the flow of subliminal images: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (91-96) Macbeth has placed the poisoned chalice to his own lips, "taken" upon himself the "present... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...one red. (II, ii) POETRY QUOTATIONS 400 109 Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a i) 128 Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls...the wasted brands do glow. Whilst the screech-owl, (II, iii) 1 10 What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...seriousness, Kierkegaard cites the following lines by Macbeth, uttered just after Duncan's murder: From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality:...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (CA, 146; cf. Macbeth 2.3.92-96) Kierkegaard sees Macbeth as the tragedy of a man who slays his own... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 414 pages
...und König heimtückisch ermordet hat, vor dem Hofstaat zu einer heuchlerischen Klagerede ansetzt: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II.iii.91-96)55 In dieser lamentalio des Mörders über den Tod seines Opfers handelt es sich ohne... | |
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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... 
