 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.  The New Mirror - Page 153edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 588 pages
...by every man of honour. Like Macbeth, who, after having murdered Duncan and Banquo, exclaimed, • I am in blood 'Slept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er they found themselves inclined to proceed, from not daring to trace back their steps. Mr. Burke added,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...and that the greater part of mankind were disposed, like Macbeth, to think " I am in blood " Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, " Returning were as tedious as go o'er ;'" and thus they pass towards the further bank, be the channel ever so wide, or the flood ever so deep and... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst: for mine own good, All canses shall give way; I am in blood Slept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er." One might have thought not quite so tedious ; as yet he had murdered only Duncan and his grooms, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pages
...1 am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst: for mine own good, All causes shall give way ; 1 am in blood Slept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things 1 have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.*... | |
 | England - 1842 - 840 pages
...what Macheth is represented as doing. " For mine own good, All canses shall give way ; I am in hlood Slept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Jumping at once to the conclusion that the remedy against all such terrihle vuitations was to harden... | |
 | John Philip Kemble - Kings and rulers in literature - 1817 - 198 pages
...By the worst means, the worst : for mine own good, All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.* Through the whole scene in the Pit of Acheron, Macbeth's language to the Weird Sisters and the Apparitions,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst : for mine own good All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Slept 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 *.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...By the worst means, the worst : for mine own good, All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er 4 : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...two deep enemies, Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep's disturbers, " — — I am in blood " Step'd in so far, that should I wade no more, " Returning were as tedious," &c. Again: " Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill." STEEVENS. s Is thy name — Tyrrel ?]... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Technology & Engineering - 1822 - 274 pages
...enlarging upon it, applied to the ministry, who brought forward the bill, the passage from Macbeth : • "I am in blood " Slept in so far, that should I wade...no more, " Returning were as tedious as go o'er." He said " that the scheme was new, and unheard of in any civil" ized nation ; to preserve your authority... | |
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