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" The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Page 396
by James Boswell - 1786
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 492 pages
...we came out of it, a raven perched on one of the chimney-tops, and croaked. Then I repeated _ " ii The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan " Under my battlements." We dined at Mr. Keith's. Mrs. Keith was rather too attentive to Dr. Johnson, asking him many questions...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 484 pages
...sense," &c. Just as we came out of it, a raven perched on one of the chimney-tops, and croaked. Then I repeated " The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Dancan " Under my battlements." We dined at Mr. Keith's. Mrs. Keith was rather too attentive to Dr....
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...should attend it. What thou wouldst highlv, [false, Lady Macleth, on the Newt of Dunam's Approach. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan U nder my battlements. Come, come you spirit) That tend on mortal thoughts, unsrx me ncrr, And fill...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 63

England - 1848 - 802 pages
...buttressed, fortified, and .gloomy, — where the lady in a vanlted half-lighted chamber may say : " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." The timber edifice on such an eminence as the Peel Bog — probably, as the sagacious Lord Hailes imagines,...
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Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale, Volume 2

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 300 pages
...said young Crawley most emphatically. "Amen," repeated Lord Frederick, most theatrically ; adding, " The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan • Under my battlements." " Good heavens," exclaimed Lady Dunore, " how can you, Lord Frederick! you too, who were in part the...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. highly, LADY MACBETH'S SOLILOQUY ON THE NEWS OF DUNCAN'S APPROACH. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, come, you spirits That tend on mortal* thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me, from the crown to...
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The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots ...

Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...by his exertions to communicate with the utmost speed the news of the king's arrival at Inverness, " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under these battlements." The imps supposed to be constantly attendant upon witches were mere modifications...
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The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 2

Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 344 pages
...by his exertions to communicate with the utmost speed the news of the king's arrival at Inverness, " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under these battlements." The imps supposed to be constantly attendant upon witches were mere modifications...
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Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq: Including a ..., Volume 1

James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 650 pages
...is a reflection of Hamlet applicable to his own case, ind quite on a par with that in Macbeth : — "The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan " Under my battlements." Kemble gave the argument of the play in the finest manner possible — " They do but jest .• roisoir...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95

English literature - 1825 - 878 pages
...is a reflection of Hamlet applicable to his own case, and quite on a par with that in Macbeth :— " The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." • . Kemble gave the argument of the play in the finest manner possible — . " They do butjeíí...
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