 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 pages
...When the reading is thus adjusted, he wishes with great propriety, in the following lines, that the earth may not hear his steps. (3) And take the present...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk—the present horror of the time ! That now suits with it Macbeth has, in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 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...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. 4 — Whiles I threat, he lives; Words... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, tow'rd his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sound 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 - 1823 - 378 pages
...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 where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | 1823 - 696 pages
...beginning and concluding lines immediately suggest these as their respective prototypes : Thou sure winds it sutler* no decay, For ever fresh and fair, and ет'гу The very stones prate of my whereabout — And Come thick nigbt, And pall thce in die dünnest smoke... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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 where-about, And take the present horrour from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With (2) Tarquin'l ravishing sides tow'rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth. Hear not my steps which...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from the tune, That rune tuits vrith it (1) Now o'er one half the world... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 484 pages
...howl's his watch, thus with his stealthjr pace, Towards his design Moves like a ghost.— Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which, now suits with it. [A Clock striket I go, and it is done... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold, hold ! Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives ; Words... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...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...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits wuth it.—Whiles I threat, he lives; Words... | |
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