 This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle :...  Hurry-graphs; Or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society, Taken from Life - Page 116by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1851 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - Drama - 1992 - 68 pages
...Other Lords and Attendants complete the stage picture.) King Duncan (Looking around). This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Banquo (Noticing the martins' nests on the walls of Macbeth 's castle). This guest of summer, The temple-haunting... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...demands. From such direct simplicity as this turn to Macbeth, to such passages as This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. . . . as The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...but in a note of unwonted harshness. (VI, 393-4) [148] [Ibid., 1.6.1ff: King Duncan. This Castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.] [Warburton complained that the air could only 'recommend itself to 'the sight and hearing'; so he read... | |
 | Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 334 pages
...Perspectives, ed. Robert A. Martin (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Ha II, 1982), 116-18. 12. "This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / Unto our gentle senses. " See William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. GB Harrison (New York:... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...surrounded by the flower of Scotland as they move toward Macbeth's castle, which, the king says, "hath a pleasant seat; the air/ Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself/ Unto our gentler senses" (1.6.1-3). It is natural here to wonder whether Banquo intends to say something about... | |
 | Harold Strachan - Fiction - 1998 - 172 pages
...tipped up and a bottle of Castle Lager in his hand and he's sniffing the top and saying This Castle hath a pleasant seat, the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses. And it knocks everybody flat in the staff room it is such a scream, honestly. Hey Jonks, it's just... | |
 | Bob Carlton - Drama - 1998 - 76 pages
...should I do on D'lllyria? BOSUN. I think we're gonna need the valium. NAVIGATIONAL OFFICER. This planet has a pleasant seat: the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our probing sensors and I see They have observed the air is delicate. TEMPEST. But why were we caught in... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - Education - 2000 - 148 pages
...husbandry* in heaven; *economy There candles are all out. 20. Whose castle is described in these lines? This castle has a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and...sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. 21. In view of later events, Banquo's description of the castle and its peaceful setting becomes ironic.... | |
 | Sally Mackey, Simon Cooper - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 436 pages
...Macbeths have started to plan his death. On his arrival, the first words Duncan says are: This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. There is a weight of dramatic irony in this speech as we believe that the castle is far from having... | |
 | Philip Taylor - Education - 2000 - 164 pages
...'but be the serpent underneath.' When Duncan arrives at their home with the words 'This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / Unto our gentle senses', he says one of the classic lines of dramatic irony. Process drama, O'Neill believes, can exploit equally... | |
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