 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 Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 439by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...done't.19 MACBETH (with decision) I go, and it is done.20 (He starts up to the tower.) MACBETH Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabouts.21 (He crosses to the tower and exits. Macbeth appears in the... | |
 | Nicola Grove, Keith Park - 2001 - 118 pages
...stealthy pace With Tarquín s ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time Which now suits with... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives; Words to... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 pages
...stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 55 Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives; 60 Words... | |
 | Denis Alexander - 2003 - 518 pages
...appears bizarre. When Shakespeare's Macbeth, in the early part of the 17th century, pleads that Thou sure and firm-set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear the very stones prate of my whereabouts,' (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1 . in the court within Inverness... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2004 - 198 pages
...murder of Duncan, Macbeth makes an effort to extract complicity from the very earth itself: Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. (Macbeth 2.1.56-60) By the time Banquo's... | |
 | Robert Garis - 2004 - 204 pages
...his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Richard Nelson - 2004 - 446 pages
...(Macready is alone now, the stage representing only the Astor Place Opera House.) MACBETH: Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: 60 Words... | |
 | Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 pages
...(1947), 114-26. M With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. (11.1.49-60) The figure of the wolf... | |
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