 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 338 pages
...; cannot be good. If ill, "Why hath it giv'n me the earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I'm Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion,...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? There is an obscurity and stiffness in part of these soliloquies, which I wish could be charged entirely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...swelling act Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen.— This supernatural soliciting1 Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given...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 Richardson - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1812 - 468 pages
...amazement : and recoils with horror from the guilty thought. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Though virtuous principles appear in this instance to predominate, his ambition is not repulsed.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...swelling act Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen. — This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good :— If ill, Why hath it given...If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose homd image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...act, " And monarchs to behold the swelling scene." STEEVENS. This supernatural soliciting ' Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given...Cawdor : , If good, why do I yield to that suggestion ^tf^p^ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair 3, And make my seated 4 heart knock at my ribs, Against... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1822 - 372 pages
...upon our pity as well as upon our horror, when he puts the following question to his conscience — 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...act Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen. — This supernatural soliciting i Cannot be ill; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given...horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated 2 heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 pages
...act' Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen! — This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given...horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart9 knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If food, ʻ ZC : [cal My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastiShakes so my single state of man, that function... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 754 pages
...upon our pky as well as upon our horror, when he puts the following question to his conscience — Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image...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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This supernatural soliciting 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... 
