 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 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against...  Macbeth: A Tragedy in Five Acts - Pàgina 11per William Shakespeare - 1847 - 60 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 362 pàgines
...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...thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my'single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not. Ban.... | |
 | Zachariah Jackson - 1819 - 504 pàgines
...taking in his mind's eye the horrid picture occasioned by ambition, he demands — Can it be good? If good, " why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair?" for, can good result from that which proceeds from evil ? The transcriber mistook the sound of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pàgines
...; 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, Whose homd image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1820 - 848 pàgines
...even almost stifled when a particular circumstance again awakened them. I CHAPTER V. Present feats Are less than horrible imaginings; My thought whose...Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is ,„ But what is not ONE day, Leopold had absented himself from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pàgines
...Macbeth cannot be palliated, since what he says could not have been spoken by any other. NOTE VII. THE thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, — The single state of man seems to be used by Shakespeare for an individual, in opposition to a commonwealth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pàgines
...Macbeth cannot be palliated, since what he says could not have been spoken by any other. NOTE VII. THE thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man,The single state of man seems to be used by Shakespeare for an individual, in opposition to a commonwealth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pàgines
...Macbeth cannot be palliated, since what he says could not have been spoken by any other. NOTE VII. THE thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man,The single state of man seems to be used by Shakespeare for an individual, in opposition to a commonwealth,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pàgines
...instruments of darkness tell us tru r ~ Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth 1 1 am thane of Cawdor ; If good, why do I yield to that...horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated t heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 448 pàgines
...a situation nearly allied to this of Brutus, will in some degree elucidate the passage before us: " My thought whose murder yet is but fantastical, "...Shakes so my single state of man, that function " Is smother'd in surmise." BLAK.EWAY. 8 Like a PHANTASMA,] " Suidas maketh a difference between phantasma... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pàgines
...— take SUGGESTION,] ie Receive any hint of villainy. JOHNSON. So, in Macbeth, Act I. Sc. III. : " If good, why do I yield to that suggestion " Whose horrid image," &c. STEEVENS. "They'll take suggestion, as a cat laps milk ;] That is, will adopt, and bear witness... | |
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