 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 183by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1811
...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his desigu Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he live* ; Words... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830
...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 Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives; Words... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Glassford Bell - 1872
...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his desigs Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm -set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for...fear ' Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, VVhich now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives; Woi'ds... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815
...So, in act IV. sc. iii : " Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure." STEEV. ' Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.' The Commentators have interpreted the passage wrong.( They consider the words ' for fear' in the sense... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816
...sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk the present horror of the time! That now suits with it Macbeth has, in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1816
...worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. r -Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk the present horror of the time!1 That now suits with it Macbeth has, in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1842
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 2010 - 416 pages
...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 walk, for...one half the world Nature seems dead. That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image, which is perhaps the mottt striking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...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...one half the world Nature seems dead. That is, over our fiemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image, which is perhaps the most striking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
...sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. - Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk the present horror of the timeT -- Tlutt now suits with it Macbeth has in the foregoing... | |
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