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" The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up... "
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 134
1844
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...by Reynolds. ' In the original senses. Act i. sc. 6. 'The 148 Words coined by Johnson. [August 29. ' The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements1.' We dined at Mr. Keith's. Mrs. Keith was rather too attentive to Dr. Johnson, asking...
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Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks ...

John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...alteration is, Which supernatural assistance seems To crown thee with. P. 492.— 295.— 373. Lady M. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. The present reading is right. But it is observable that Sir William Davenant appears...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ...

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
..." Doth seek " To have thee crown'd withal." 64. " • — Give him tending, " He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan " Under my battlements." Doctor Johnson and Mr. Fuseli appear to have been refining this passage into perplexity....
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Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With ..., Volume 1

Francis Douce - 1807 - 560 pages
...breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message. LADY M. Give him tending, He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. The last lines may appear less difficult, if the reader will suppose that at the moment in which the...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 424 pages
...scarcely more Than would make up his message. He brings great news. [Exit SEYTON. Lady. Give him tending, The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, all you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from...
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King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 432 pages
...scarcely more Than would make up his message. Lady. Give him tending, He brings great news. [Exit SEYTON. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, all you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...oddly, that a raven perched upon one of the chimney-tops, and croaked. Then I in my turn repeated — " The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan, " Under my battlements." " I wish you had been with us. Think what enthusiastick happiness I shall have to...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...should attend it. What thou wouldst highlv, [false, Lady Macleth, on the Newt of Dunam's Approach. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan U nder my battlements. Come, come you spirit) That tend on mortal thoughts, unsrx me ncrr, And fill...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 63

1848 - 802 pages
...buttressed, fortified, and .gloomy, — where the lady in a vanlted half-lighted chamber may say : " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." The timber edifice on such an eminence as the Peel Bog — probably, as the sagacious...
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Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale, Volume 2

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1818 - 300 pages
...said young Crawley most emphatically. "Amen," repeated Lord Frederick, most theatrically ; adding, " The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan • Under my battlements." " Good heavens," exclaimed Lady Dunore, " how can you, Lord Frederick! you too, who...
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