Cannot be ill, cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,... Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth - Page 27by William Shakespeare - 1877 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1784 - 116 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth 1 I am thane of Cawdor: If good, 'why do I yield to that suggestion 230 Whose .horrid image doth unfix my hair, And m:ike my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 233 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 558 pages
...be ill; cannot be good: — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that...Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 412 pages
...good, why do I yield to that suggestion3 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated 4 heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise... | |
| British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...following question to his con« science — Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image cloth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? Now let us turn to Richard, in whose cruel heart no such remorse finds place : he needs no tempter... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...be ill; cannot be good: — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 7 trusted home,] \. e. entirely, thoroughly relied on, or perhaps we should read thrusted home. s Might... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 442 pages
...be ill; cannot be good: — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 7 trusted home,] ie entirely, thoroughly relied on, or perhaps we should read thrusted home. 8 Might... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to...less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 346 pages
...ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to...my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Ate 'less' than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 424 pages
...upon our pity as well as upon our horror, when he puts the following question to his cou. science — Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image...seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Now let us turn to Richard, in whose cruel heart no such remorse finds place : he needs no tempter... | |
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