 | Club book - 1836 - 550 pages
...satisfied nor pleased. THE BOOK OF LIFE. BY JOHN GALT. Better Iw with the dead Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecsiacy. •—THE story is in itself singular, and when you have heard how strangely the coincidences... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...these terrible dreams That shake us nightly : Belter be wilh the dead, Whom we, to gain our place,1 ore : whose very naming punishes me with the remembrance of that penit ecstacy.* Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well : Treason has done his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly : Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.2 Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place,9 have sent to peace, ' Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.3 Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. Treason has done his... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...moved, and moving, with the verses in "Macbeth" in which Macbeth speaks of Duncan's assassination: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.9 With Lincoln, the play was the thing,... | |
 | Alan Sinfield, Deputy Editor: Lindsay Smith - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 164 pages
...used like this in Shakespeare, as when Macbeth tells his wife that Duncan is now free of worldly care: he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him futther. (IILii.25-8) Malice within Scorland is... | |
 | Gerald L. Alexanderson, George Pólya - Mathematics - 2000 - 324 pages
...Trinity College Cambridge Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone. (EWW) With: 'Duncan is in his grave, After life's fitful fever he sleeps well' = 100 and the Browning quotation = 6 1 I give this 23. Otherwise EWW = 0.07 GHH (Hardy, 1990) Here... | |
 | Michael Eigen - Philosophy - 2001 - 126 pages
...favorite images: "life's fitful fever," "your potent and infectious fevers." "Better be dead . . . / Than on the torture of the mind to lie / In restless ecstasy." But it is precise!y this tormented ecstasy we live. Today's the day ( like even' day) that things will... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...joy.10 MACBETH In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly, better be with the dead Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (The two Murderers appear in the corner under the tower. They crouch there, waiting, listening.) MACBETH... | |
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Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. 
