The Ghosts in Shakespeare: A Study of the Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays |
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Alexas Andromache Antigonus Antony apparition appear Archbishop Ariel assassination astral Banquo Birnam blood boar bodily death brother Brutus Buckingham Burgundy Caesar Calphurnia Cassandra Cassius Catesby ceremonial magic Charmian Clarence Cleomenes consciousness dead Decius doth dramatist dream Duchess Duke Duke of Gloucester Dunsinane etheric double exclaims eyes fact fate father fear ghost give Glendower Gloucester hail Hamlet hath heart heaven Hector Helicanus Horatio Hotspur invisible is't Joan Julius Caesar King Henry King Richard Lady Macbeth Lancaster Leontes live look Lord Hastings Lysimachus Macduff Marcellus Mark Antony Messenger Methought mind Mowbray murder nature night occult peace Pericles physical body Priam prince prophecy Prospero queen Reignier Richard III Richmond Romeo says Scene Shakespeare plays Siward sleep Soothsayer soul speak spirit Stanley Suffolk sword Talbot tell Tempest Thaisa thane of Cawdor thee thing thou art tragedy Trimble Troilus truth unto Westmoreland wife witches wraith Young Siward
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Page 119 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 23 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't ? Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : — You should be women, * Compass.
Page 29 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 24 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 48 - Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.
Page 35 - I throw my warlike shield : lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries ' Hold, enough !
Page 61 - And descant on mine own deformity : And therefore — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other...
Page 45 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 120 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady,, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 119 - But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...