 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...passages ; but he has instances of still greater boldness. Among these may be named Lady Macheth's — " Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark, To cry Hold, hold I" Here " blanket of the dark " runs to so high a pitch, that divers critics, Coleridge among them,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out ; .. amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer : Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 420 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer : Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...peace between The effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murthering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold, hold!"— When she first hears that " Duncan... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...nor is there any smothering with kisses. " Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest arauke of hell! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes...the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold! hold! Great Glamls ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter Macbdh. Greater than both, by the all-hail HEREThy letter» have transported... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out amidst his emptions into a wish natural to a murderer ; Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 422 pages
...king, he breaks out 166 THE RAMBLER. No. 168. amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer: Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold 1 In this passage is exerted all the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...in A Warning for Faire Women, 1599, a tragedy which was certainly prior to Macbeth : And pall thee 2 in the dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife...; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark 4, " O sable night, sit on the eye of heaven, " That it discern not this black deed of darkness ! "... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...into a wish natural to a murderer : -Come, thick night 1 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of bell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor...through the blanket of the dark, ' To cry, Hold ! hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 408 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer : — Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold ! hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being,... | |
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The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see... 
