 | Robert Ornstein - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 318 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on th' other. Soft, mine eyes deceive. Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?... | |
 | Richard Nelson - Drama - 2004 - 446 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other. (Pause. Finally Macbeth f Macready] turns toward the wings and gives a small nod. Lady Macbeth... | |
 | Robert Garis - Performing Arts - 2004 - 204 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on th' other (I.vii.i-28) Welles divides this in half, placing the second half (slightly altered) first,... | |
 | Paul Lennon - Foreign Language Study - 2004 - 312 pages
...part of the picture (Guardian, "Weekend" 24.2.96: 36). Context: Article about Palestine. Source: "... I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but...which o'erleaps itself, / And falls on the other" (Macbeth I.vii.27, Oxford Concise Dictionary of Quotations: 286/1). Examples 5.6 curiouser and curiouser... | |
 | John Russell Brown - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...like a naked new-born babe Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on th'other (I.vii.21-8) The sudden shifts from the 'babe' to cherubs 'horsed' on the winds, to tears... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or Heaven's cherubin, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on th'other 'Enter LADY ' MACBETH How now, what news? LADY M. He has almost supped: why have you left... | |
 | Tetsuo Kishi - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 167 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or Heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other Enter Lady Macbeth How now? What news? (Act I scene vii) Although those horses seem to emerge... | |
 | John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...Cherubins, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, 25 That tears shall drown the wind. - I have no spur...only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And fall on th'other - (I, vii, 1-28) This speech, of course, has commanded an enormous volume of commentary,... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...soliloquy in question, Macbeth finishes up by confessing that he is animated by an overweening ambition: I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other — ,T •• o\ (I, vn, 25-8) And falls, presumably, on the other side of the horse on to which it... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - Drama - 2006 - 220 pages
...naked new-born babe, Striding the blast,13 or Heaven's cherubim,14 horsed Upon the sightless15 couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other -16 1 Wind instrument, often used on courtly occasions. 2 Torchbearers. 3 Superior domestic... | |
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Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. 
