Shakspere's MacbethScott, Foresman, 1908 - 176 pages |
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adjectives Banquo Birnam wood blood Cæs Caith castle cauldron Clar daggers dare death deed Dict Doct Donalbain Donwald drama Duffe Duncan Dunsinane Dunsinane Hill Elizabethan England English Enter Lady Macbeth Enter Macbeth Exeunt Exit father fear Fleance Forres friends Gent give Glamis Glossary grace hail hand hath hear heart heaven Hecate Holinshed honour king king of Scotland king's Knocking Lady Macduff Lennox live look lord Macb Macbeth and Banquo Macd Macduff meaning Meas ment murder night noble noun palace passage perfect spy play pray Ross SCENE Scone Scotland sense Servant Seyton Shakspere Shakspere's sight Siward sleep soldier speak speech stage direction Steevens strange sword thane of Cawdor thee There's thine things Third Mur Third Witch thought three Witches TRAGEDY OF MACBETH tyrant verb viii vnto weird sisters wife word
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Page 82 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 104 - What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger ; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 136 - Hell is murky ! — Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard ? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him ? Doct. Do you mark that ? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife ; where is she now° ? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord, no mor.e o' that : you mar all with this starting.
Page 15 - O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 104 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation" in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! LADY M.
Page 55 - 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 the use of nature...
Page 68 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 80 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Page 45 - First Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Page 68 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i