 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...  Notes and Queries - Page 205by William White - 1892Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Literary Criticism - 1786
...by Reynolds. ' In the original senses. Act i. sc. 6. 'The 148 Words coined by Johnson. [August 29. ' The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements1.' We dined at Mr. Keith's. Mrs. Keith was rather too attentive to Dr. Johnson, asking... | |
 | E H. Seymour - 1805
..." Doth seek " To have thee crown'd withal." 64. " • — Give him tending, " He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan " Under my battlements." Doctor Johnson and Mr. Fuseli appear to have been refining this passage into perplexity. That the messenger... | |
 | Baron John Howe Chedworth - 1805 - 375 pages
...alteration is, Which supernatural assistance seems To crown thee with. P. 492.— 295.— 373. Lady M. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. The present reading is right. But it is observable that Sir William Davenant appears to have supposed... | |
 | E. H. Seymour, Baron John Howe Chedworth, Capel Lofft, Benjamin Strutt - 1805
...To have thee crown'd withal." 64. " Give him tending, " lie brings great news. The raven him" self is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan " Under my battlements." Doctor Johnson and Mr. Fuscli appear to have been refining this passage into perplexity. That the messenger... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807
...breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message. LADY M. Give him tending, He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. The last lines may appear less difficult, if the reader will suppose that at the moment in which the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, Mrs. Inchbald - Lear, King (Legendary character) - 1808 - 78 pages
...scarcely more Than would make up his message. Lady. Give him tending, He brings great news. [Exit SEYTON. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, all you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - Drama - 1808
...scarcely more Than would make up his message. He brings great news. [Exit SEYTON. Lady. Give him tending, The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, all you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 460 pages
...oddly, that a raven perched upon one of the chimney-tops, and croaked. Then I in my turn repeated — " The raven himself is hoarse, " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan, " Under my battlements." " I wish you had been with us. Think what enthusiastick happiness I shall have to see Mr. Samuel Johnson... | |
 | Elegant extracts - Poetry - 1816
...should attend it. What thou wouldst highlv, [false, Lady Macleth, on the Newt of Dunam's Approach. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan U nder my battlements. Come, come you spirit) That tend on mortal thoughts, unsrx me ncrr, And fill... | |
 | History - 1848
...buttressed, fortified, and .gloomy, — where the lady in a vanlted half-lighted chamber may say : " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." The timber edifice on such an eminence as the Peel Bog — probably, as the sagacious Lord Hailes imagines,... | |
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