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... ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event , Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune , death , and danger dare , Even for an egg - shell Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument , But greatly to ...
... ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event , Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune , death , and danger dare , Even for an egg - shell Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument , But greatly to ...
Page 214
... ambition . It is clear again that Shakespeare was writing with authority when he portrayed Macbeth as subjected by the passion of ambition to the temptation of what appears to be the supernatural.3 Banquo , however , first utters the ...
... ambition . It is clear again that Shakespeare was writing with authority when he portrayed Macbeth as subjected by the passion of ambition to the temptation of what appears to be the supernatural.3 Banquo , however , first utters the ...
Page 223
... ambition from accomplishing , yet in the very moment when ambition seems to have won , fear has in reality taken possession of the victim . After the murder of Duncan , the whole play is motivated by the increasing passion of fear ...
... ambition from accomplishing , yet in the very moment when ambition seems to have won , fear has in reality taken possession of the victim . After the murder of Duncan , the whole play is motivated by the increasing passion of fear ...
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action affections ambition anger appearance appetite Aristotle Banquo Blazon of Jealousie blood bloud body brain Cassio cause chapter choler cold complexion Cordelia courage cries death deed Desdemona desire Devil discussion doth English envy evil excess explains fall of princes father fear fortune French Academie fury ghost Gloucester Goneril grief Hamlet hath hear heart Holland's Plutarch humours Iago Ibid imitation judgement justice Kent King King Lear Lady Macbeth Laertes Lavater Lear Lucius Annaeus Seneca lust Macduff madness maner melan melancholy adust mind Mirror for Magistrates moral philosophy mortal sin murder naturall nature Newton Ophelia Othello passion play poetry Polonius punishment rage reason Renaissance revenge says scene Seneca sensible soul Shakespeare shame shew sleep soliloquy sort speak spirits teaching temperance thee theme things thinking Thomas thou thought tragedy translation Treatise unto vengeance vertue vices virtue witches wrath