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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... "
Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV., part I - Page 101
by William Shakespeare - 1811
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...resemblances remain. Macbeth does open his mind to diabolical promptings: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...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 Against the use of...
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Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories ...

Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 889 pages
...Macbeth understands this perspective, as he reveals in his next aside: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill: cannot be good. If ill. Why hath it...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. Against the use of...
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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature

John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme . . . This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...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, Against the use of...
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King Richard III

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...to himself rather than about himself. Macbeth does it from the first: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill. Why hath it...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 Against the use of...
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Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment

Martin Harries - Philosophy - 2000 - 236 pages
...the prophecies of the witches is particularly symptomatic of this split: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...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, Against the use of...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres

Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...are told As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...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 Against the use of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

Richard L. Harp, Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart, Cambridge University Press - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...more internalized form of antithetical verse/ This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot he good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success,...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, Against the use of...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...consecuencia, y asir Con la cesación el éxito; si tan sólo este golpe 8. This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill; cannot be good:- / If ill, why hath...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, / Against the...
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Symplectic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry: Proceedings of the 4th KIAS Annual ...

Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Electronic books - 2001 - 940 pages
...as more real than the existent present, but with a distinct foreboding: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: If ill, why hath it...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, Against the use of...
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The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81

Mary Lynn Bryan, Barbara Bair, Maree de Angury, Jane Addams - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 716 pages
...that Duncan has made him thane of Cawdor. Macbeth reasons to himself: "This supematural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, / Why hath...Cawdor. / If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / . . . Presem fears / Are less than horrible imaginings" (act...
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