 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it.2 Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,...wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall3 thee in the dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1837 - 516 pages
...sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall' thec in the dünnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife* see not the wound...heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry saven peel ;JlulJ,]l¡ dor! old ! — Great (JlamU, worthy Caw JSiiffr Macbeth. Greater than both,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, 1 / 1 x/ 1 ! wurthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter ! Thy letters have transported... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...composed of heroes and heroines, not men and women. The lines objected to, as " poetry debased," are — " Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold !" The learned lexicographer first finds fault with the word dun, because it is a " low" expression,... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...composed of heroes and heroines, not men and women. The lines objected to, as " poetry debased," are — " Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven pfiep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold !" The learned lexicographer first finds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall3 thee in the dunnest smoke of hell! That my keen knife...makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,4 To cry, Hold, hold ! Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it. 2 Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,...on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall 3 thee in the dunnest smoke of hell! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes; Nor heaven peep... | |
 | Truth - Truth - 1840 - 176 pages
...in its nature; and, accordingly, we find Shakspeare thus expressing his sublime conceptions :— ' Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark To cry, hold, hold.' MACBETH. Sir Walter Scott, also, the modern master of the strongest and most understood facts and feelings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...his emotions into a wish natural for a murderer : Come, thick nifht! And pall the« in the dünnest K ? {9* & u)R \ 1 k5 .`.Ri 6{ h[& wT 1 xy 2F 1l߬ F d՜j|Ŝ u1 ,s~ P h5 q u CO', Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry ; that force which calls new powers... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 514 pages
...unintelligible by some, and absurd by others ; among which latter class we again encounter the erudite Doctor. " That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold! hold!'" Upon this passage, Dr. Johnson, in the Rambler, No. 168, remarks thus : — •' Lady Macbeth proceeds... | |
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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... 
