 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 pages
...In one of the grandest passages in Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth says, — " Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! " Every one feels what noble poetry is here ; yet, as it almost passes from true poetry to false,... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 pages
...Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on Nature's mischief! Come, thick Night, 50 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" The first soliloquy in the play is spoken not by Macbeth but by his wife.50 If we examine it, bearing... | |
 | Harald William Fawkner - 1990 - 276 pages
...knife" is a unit revealing that "she intends to do the deed herself."19 Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" (1.5.50-54) What Shakespeare is working with, here, is not the empirical level of possible fact but... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...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...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" (81) Act I, Scene 7: In this speech, Shakespeare presents the universal conflict of conscience against... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...is both transparently opaque and blindingly dark - Lady Macbeth says: 'Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!".' (Macbeth I.5.50) We could say that there was defensive distancing at this point. Or is it physiognomic... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...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...through the blanket of the dark To cry "Hold, hold!" (1.5.51-58) Lady Macbeth wishes to be something beyond a witch, to exchange female for male. Her overstress,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...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...through the blanket of the dark To cry 'Hold, hold!' 66 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination Could... | |
 | Ewald Standop - 1995 - 172 pages
...einer typisch metaphorischen Hyperbel mit fünffacher Stufung abgewandelt: Come, thick Night, And pal l thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" (I.5.50ff.) Wir erkennen die fünffache Stufüng, die von der Wunde, die der Mörder schlägt, bis... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1995 - 238 pages
...comparing Lady Macbeth's words with those of King James in Daemonologie: , Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife...through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold! Hold!" The devil can "thicken and obscure so the air ... that the beams of any other man's eye cannot pierce... | |
 | Sue-Ellen Case - 1996 - 294 pages
...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...through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold' (she loses control completely) I won't hold. Why should I hold? I'm tired of holding. Let all the other... | |
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The effect, and it. Come to .my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring 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... 
