 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, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 417by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 840 pages
...personification of murder, not perhaps very appropriately, with the rarishing strides of Tarquin. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, A ad take the present horror from the time, Which now tititf u-ilh it." Why should a murderer be solicitous... | |
 | 1824 - 984 pages
...beginning and concluding lines im^ mediately suggest these as their respective prototypes : Thou sure and firm-set earth Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout— And Come, thkk uigUt, And pall thee in Ibe dünnest smoke... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pages
...stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves 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 present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...NOTE XX. ACT II.— -SCENE II. ——Now o'er one half the world Moves like a ghost — Thou sonntl and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it. (1) Now o'er one half the world... | |
 | Edward Cape Everard - 1818 - 294 pages
...drawn dagger and is about to murder Duncan, and supposed to be near his chamber-door, where he says, " Thou sound and firm-set earth, hear not my steps Which way they tread, for i'ear the very stones Prate of my whereabout 1" In this he was still worse, and more opposite... | |
 | Edward Cape Everard - 1818 - 298 pages
...air-drawn dagger and is about to murder Duncan, and supposed to be near his chamber-door, where he says, '; Thou sound and firm-set earth, hear not my steps 'Which way they tread, for tear the very stones 1'rate of my whereabout !" In this he was still worse, and more opposite... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...stealthy pace, With Tarjjuin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves 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 whereTabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With (2) Tarqwiu's ravishing sides, tow' rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear. The very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from t/te time, That now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With (2) Tarquin's ravishing sides, tow' rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my wheve-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time, That now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With (2) Tarquin's ravishing sides ftovf'rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time. That now suits... | |
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