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 1341844Full view - About this book
| Sam Dowling - 2007 - 90 pages
...impedes thee from the golden round Which Fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come you spirits That tend on human thoughts unsex me here 21 Of direst cruelty make... | |
| Hans Christian Andersen - 2008 - 508 pages
...knowledge of all things. The croaking of the raven has a venerable literary tradition suggesting doom: "The raven himself is hoarse / that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / under my battlements," Lady Macbeth declares (Macbeth I, 5). It is not by chance that common parlance refers... | |
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