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Macbeth. King John - Page 27
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The ancestry of ... queen Victoria, and of ... prince Albert

George Russell French - 1841 - 444 pages
...favourable impression of the character and reign of Duncan, when Macbeth is made to confess that he " Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off." DUNCAN married a sister of the "warlike...
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Nugae Literariae: Prose and Verse

Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 616 pages
...Macbeth thus reasons with himself after his interview with the sibyl-crones : — "Besides, this Duncnn Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongucd, against The deep damnation of his taking oft"; And Pity, like a naked new-born babe,...
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The Guide to Literary Terms

Gail Rae - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 124 pages
...drives immediately into another simile that redirects us into a vision of warfare and destruction: . . . Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...
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Shakespeare on Management: Leadership Lessons for Today's Managers

Paul Corrigan - Business & Economics - 2000 - 260 pages
...subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against Ttie deep damnation of his taking-ojf; Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7 lines 12-20...
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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other ...

Drama - 1999 - 62 pages
...(LADY MACBETH approaches MACBETH.) MACBETH (to LADY MACBETH, guiltily). He hath honored me of late. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off. Tears shall drown the wind. (LADY MACBETH...
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Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...by Duncan's furthering of their designs; in soliloquy, he produces the saintly king - as a mirror. "This Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath...office, that his virtues / Will plead like angels" (I. vii. 16-19). Duncan's polished surface: is it the representation of an absolute power or the mirror...
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English Matters, Volume 3

Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. | R PS iHp S; this Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-oft. ... I have no spinTo prick the sides...
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William Blake

Basil De Selincourt - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 396 pages
...speech of Macbeth in which he is counting over to himself the possible consequences of Duncan's murder : This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off : And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...
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En torno a la cultura popular de la risa: nuevos fragmentos de M.M. Batjín ...

Sergeĭ Sergeevich Averint︠s︡ev - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 228 pages
...wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, Tocry,//oW,/íoW.'[I,5.] MACBETH. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will pled like angels, tnunpet-tongned, against The deep damnation of his taking-off: And pity, like a naked...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...desintegración en el más sangriento de todos los tiranos villanos de Shakespeare. Sin embargo nos pregun7. Besides, this Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so...naked new-born babe, / Striding the blast, or heaven's Cherubms, hors'd / Upon the sightless couriers of the air, / Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...
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