 Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers : the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures ; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted deviL If he do bleed, I '11 gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.  The woman of genius [by mrs. Ross]. - Page 40by mrs. Ross - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1864 - 498 pages
...Macb. I'll go no more : I am afraid to think what I have done ; Look on't again. J dare no,t. Lady M. Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers : The sleeping, and the dead, "Are Dut as pictures ; 'tis the eye of childhood, That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild... | |
 | Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...there is some lack of logic in her reproach of him for refusing to return to the place of his crime : "the sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures ;...the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil" (II. 11.53-55). I* was with the eye of childhood that she looked at the sleeping Duncan and found herself... | |
 | Paul Epstein, Richard Schechner - Operas - 1978 - 84 pages
...I'll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on it again I dare not. LADY MAKBETH. Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are...the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. If he's still bleeding, I'll gild the faces of the grooms with blood, for it must seem their guilt. MAKBETH.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...professes to believe that the difference between the temporary death of sleep and true death is illusory: The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. But appearance and reality are willfully confused at one's peril, as Macbeth's hallucinations and his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...blood. Macbeth I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not. Lady Macbeth Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers:...dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood 55 That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - Drama - 1992 - 68 pages
...(Scornfully). Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers! . . . (She takes the bloodstained weapons) . . . The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood hangman 's hands : bloody from drawing and quartering ravelled sleeve of care : tangled worries witness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 268 pages
...blood. MACBETH I'll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on't again I dare not. L. MACBETH Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead so Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll... | |
 | Frederic Kolman - Study Aids - 2013 - 122 pages
...scene and place the daggers to suggest that the king's guards murdered Duncan, she castigates him: "Infirm of purpose /Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" (II, ii, 11. 50-52). As she exits, it is easy to visualize Lady Macbeth grabbing the daggers from her... | |
 | Gail Rae - Study Aids - 2013 - 104 pages
...daggers to suggest that the king's guards murdered Duncan, she castigates him: "Infirm of purpose/Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" (II, ii, ll. 50-52). As she exits, it is easy to visualize Lady Macbeth grabbing the daggers from her... | |
 | Louva Irvine - Study Aids - 2013 - 126 pages
...daggers to suggest that the king's guards murdered Duncan, she castigates him: "Infirm of purpose/Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" (II, ii, ll. 50-52). As she exits, it is easy to visualize Lady Macbeth grabbing the daggers from her... | |
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