This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, 2 Without, here, is beyond. Often so. In The Tempest, v. i, the witch Sycorax is described as " one so strong, that could control the Moon, and deal in her command without her power." 8 Scotch'd is scored or cut. So in Coriotanus, iv. 5: "Before Corioli he scotch'd ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, 2 Without, here, is beyond. Often so. In The Tempest, v. i, the witch Sycorax is described as " one so strong, that could control the Moon, and deal in her command without her power." 8 Scotch'd is scored or cut. So in Coriotanus, iv. 5: "Before Corioli he scotch'd and notch'd him like a carbonado." 4 What " these terrible dreams " are, is shown in Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking agonies. It is of her state of mind, not of his own, that Macbeth is here thinking. I quote again from Professor Dowden: "No witches have given her' hail'; no airy dagger marshals her the way she is going; nor is she afterwards haunted by the terrible vision of Banquo's gory head. As long as her will remains her own she can throw herself upon external facts, and maintain herself in relation with the definite, actual surroundings; it is in her sleep, when the will is incapable of action, that she is persecuted by the past which perpetually renews itself, not in ghostly shapes, but by the imagined recurrence of real and terrible incidents." 6 Ecstasy, in its general sense, is any violent perturbation of mind. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Lady M. Come on; gentle my lord,6 Sleek o'er your rugged looks; be bright and jovial Among your guests to-night. Macb. So shall I, love; 5 And so, I pray, be you: let your remembrance Apply 7 to Banquo; present him eminence, both With eye and tongue:8 unsafe the while, that we Must lave our honours in these flattering streams;9 And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are. io Lady M. You must leave this. Macb. O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance live.10 6 We should say "my gentle lord." The Poet...
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