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 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1850 - 398 pages
...Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cavvdor — If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? It will be said, that the same "horrid suggestion" present,.; itself... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...ill, Why hath it giv'n me earnest of suecess, Comm'encing in a truth ? I'm Thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose... | |
 | Irving Massey - Canada - 1994 - 220 pages
...interieure: Edition rei'ue et corrigee, p. 27. 26. Macbeth often seems to be viewing a play in his own mind: "That suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs" (1.3.134-136). When he asks "What hands are here?" (II. 2.59) we are not quite sure what the... | |
 | Ulrike Jekutsch - European drama - 1994 - 480 pages
...ill, why hath it given me eamest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that Suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, 135 And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...implied transports him into the (/-world: If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success. . .? If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs? He tries to disclaim decision: he will let the //-world guide his actions: If chance will have... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...1. 136-37(1623). Macbeth muses on the Witches' prophesy that he will be king, "Whose horrid ¡mage doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature." Feelings 1 The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...ill. Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion. Whose horrid image...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? (1.3.130-7) Between the two plays, Shakespeare has shifted from a medieval... | |
 | Rollo May - Psychology - 1999 - 292 pages
...ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? 1 am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? . . . He is so caught up and overwhelmed by these thoughts that he... | |
 | Martin Harries - Philosophy - 2000 - 236 pages
...ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? (I. iii. 130-37) For Macbeth, "supernatural soliciting" elicits a... | |
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