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" Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If 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 doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 323
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...swelling act Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen. [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it...Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of...
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Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge

Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...it is clear that Macbeth is already yielding to the evil in his heart : This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix tny hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of...
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Makbeth: After Shakespeare

Paul Epstein, Richard Schechner - Operas - 1978 - 84 pages
...thank you, gentlemen. MAKBETH. This prophetic soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why has it given me earnest of success commencing in a truth?...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image makes my heart knock at my ribs? Scene 3. Duncan, Malcom, Macduff. DUNCAN. I wish...
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Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

David R. B. Kimbell - Music - 1981 - 724 pages
...rational or philosophical contemplation of the future - in such terms as This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...Cawdor If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...gentlemen. [ To himself again] This meddling with the supernatural can be neither good nor evil. If Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 135 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use...
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The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...witness that his selfhood is disjoined from the heroic image he projects: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of...
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Playhouse and Cosmos: Shakespearean Theater as Metaphor

Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...swelling act Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.— [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Transactions

Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...Macbeth's thoughts in the "very process of conscious formulation"": [Aside.] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 156 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use...
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Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare: The Practice of Theory

Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - Drama - 1992 - 320 pages
...drive him to its center, to image. Indeed, all facts meld into images. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: — If ill, why hath...Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of...
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...resemblances remain. Macbeth does open his mind to diabolical promptings: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of...
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