| Russ McDonald - Drama - 1994 - 324 pages
...Messenger. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose,... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...long. 65 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor... | |
| Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - Drama - 1996 - 346 pages
...the witches themselves, she phrases this unsexing as the undoing of her own bodily maternal function: Come, you Spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose, nor... | |
| Nina Auerbach - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 540 pages
...to take her femaleness away, raises the same sort of puzzlement about a woman's power of being bad: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...access and passage to remorse. That no compunctious visi tings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...leader reprieved at Christ's crucifixion, following the custom at Passover. (Matthew 27). Cruelty 1 Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th 'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose,... | |
| James Cunningham - Drama - 1997 - 252 pages
...Lady Macbeth's invocation of the evil spirits in the first act of Macbeth may be taken as an example: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor... | |
| Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...Macbeth. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, remorse—compassion That no compunctious visitings of nature compunctious... | |
| Gibson Burrell - Business & Economics - 1997 - 260 pages
...Macbeth, on her desire to escape supposed feminine traits, raises the issue of'femininity'. She implores 'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, stop up th'access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose nor... | |
| Laurence Coupe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 346 pages
...successfully, and without remorse, carry out her murderous plot against the king of Scotland: . . . Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor... | |
| Laurence Coupe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 346 pages
...successfully, and without remorse, carry out her murderous plot against the king of Scotland: . . . Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor... | |
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