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" 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. "
The Lincoln Tribute Book: Appreciations by Statesmen, Men of Letters, and ... - Page 45
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) English poet, lyricist After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well; Treason...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. Macbeth, Macbeth William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet An orphan's curse would drag...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...dramatist, poet. Mark Antony, in ¡utius Caesar, act 3, sc. 2, delivering Caesar's funeral oration. 24 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poei. Mjcbelh. in Macbeth, act 3, sc, 2. 25 He...
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Lincoln in American Memory

Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...author, Shakespeare. He loved Macbeth above all the other plays and from it spoke the pensive lines: Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Did the shadow of death pass across his brow as he uttered these words? Poets and philosophers might...
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The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - Life - 1994 - 312 pages
...not necessarily regrettable. - Macbeth, envying the situation of the murdered Macdonald, said: (552) After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason...domestic, foreign levy, nothing. Can touch him further. - Feeble, a recruit in the service of King Henry IV, commented as follows on the chance of his being...
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The Assassination of Lincoln: History and Myth

Lloyd Lewis - History - 1994 - 396 pages
..."Duncan is in his grave. Ajter life's fiiful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done its worst; not steel nor -poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further" Lincoln read it, then stopped. The passage had caught him. What thoughts it had set stirring in him...
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Lincoln

David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...nightly: better be with the dead . . . Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. Then, struck by the weird beauty of the lines, Lincoln paused, as Chambrun recalled, and "began to...
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Lincoln-lore: Lincoln in the Popular Mind

Ray Broadus Browne - History - 1996 - 356 pages
...Shakespeare applied to our national bereavement Abraham Lincoln Born July 12, 1809— Died April 15, 1865 After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well: Treason...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. Our Honored President, all agree, Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great...
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Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...who seems best to understand, and most to sympathize with, the old king should have the last word: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further! (3.2.22-26) CHAPTER 6 Text Against Performance: The Example of 'Macbeth' Rene Girard once observed...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...1943). 1 1 How do they know? Remark on hearing the announcement that Calvin Coolidge had died (1933). 12 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Macbeth, in Macbeth, act3, sc. 2, 1. 25-8(1623)....
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Anatomy of what We Value Most

William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...these lines about the murdered Duncan: (779) After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason his done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. In Shakespeare's Cymbelinc, Prince Guiderius addresses the dead Princess Imogen in these words: (780)...
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