 Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides,...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 24by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my where-about, And take the...Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. I go, and it is done ; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell That summons thee... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,...Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings. I go, and it is done ; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.2 Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.3 — Whiles I threat, he lives ; Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, toward his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm set shing and a martial outside ; As many other mannish...ove's own page, And therefore, look you, call me, [A bell ring}. I go, and it is done ; the bell invites me Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.2 Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.3 — Whiles I threat, he lives ; Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rirtgs.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...like a ghost. 2 Thou sure and firm-set earth, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. 3 —Whiles I threat, he lives; Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. I go, and it is done;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 396 pages
...his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 1 Haft or handle. ' Drops. Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,...Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [a bell rings. I go, and it is done ; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell,... | |
 | 1842 - 916 pages
...personification of murder, not perhaps very appropriately, with the ravishing strides of Tarquin. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it" Whv should a murderer be solicitous to preserve the horror of the time ? its silence is surely all... | |
 | William Trollope - 1842 - 626 pages
...Shakspeare, also, more than once employs a similar expression. Macbeth, II. 1. Thou sure and firm set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Jul. Caes. III. 2. And put a tongue In every wound of Ccesar, that should move The stones of Rome to... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...unintelligible, at least obscure. I confess I do not perceive anything unintelligible in the passage. " Thou sure and firmset earth, Hear not my steps, which...whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it." The meaning is this. He cries out to the earth not to hear him, lest the very... | |
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