 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 792 pages
...CHAPTER XXI. • and witherM Murder, Alarum'd by bis ; line], the wolf, Whose bowl's his watch, tlms with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Mactrth. FOR the space of a quarter of an hour, or longer, after the incident related, all remained... | |
 | Horace Smith - English fiction - 1837 - 316 pages
...died as he had lived, with the confidence and fortitude of a virtuous and honest man. CHAPTER XXI. " Thou sure and firm-set earth ! Hear not my steps,...horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles l threat, he lives — l 50, and it is done; the bell invitea me." SHAKSPEARE. i Jocelyn, who had never... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1837 - 516 pages
...(4) Bounty. J5) The rooms appropriated to serrant». 3ear not my steps, which way they walk, for Tear The very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time. -Vhich now suits with it.— Whiles I threat, he lire« ; Vords to the heat of deeds too cold breath... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...wolf, Whose howl's his watch,) thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides toward his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set...present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. — While I threat, he lives. (A bell rings. ,) I go, and it is done ; the bell invites me. Hear it... | |
 | Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, toward his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set...earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...pursues his fear. (302-8) The participation of inanimate objects in his guilt anticipates Macbeth's Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout . . . (2.1.56-8) The next stanza is even more forceful in its... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...matter. He identifies himself with wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.53-57) "Tarquin's ravishing strides:" the nature of the deed receives open confirmation. Now on... | |
 | Sergeĭ Sergeevich Averint︠s︡ev - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 228 pages
...dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's oferings... Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...whereabout, And take the present horror from the time... Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or the hell. [II, 1 .] Lady Macbeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 148 pages
...sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, 56 With Tarquin's ravishing side, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and...earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout i,ii And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Nicola Grove, Keith Park - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 118 pages
...Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace With Tarquín s ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a...present horror from the time Which now suits with it. I go and it is done. (a bell rings) The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell Which... | |
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Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With... 
