 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...of the knowledge, dearest chuck. Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Macbeth 69 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 234 pages
...The next context, rather more spiritualistic, is in Shakespeare's Macbeth: Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! (3.2.46-5o) Here "seeling night" is personified as a violent spirit invoked by Macbeth to calm his... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. [.v.17-28] 14. Come, seeling night, / Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful Day, /And, with thy bloody...and tear to pieces, that great bond / Which keeps me pale!-Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to th' rooky wood; / Good things of Day begin to Aquí... | |
 | Nicola Grove, Keith Park - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 118 pages
...to the accompaniment of birds croaking, and the flapping of wings. Macbeth Come, seeling night Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day And with thy bloody...hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which makes me pale. Light thickens And the crow makes wing to the rooky wood; Good things of day begin to... | |
 | Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton - Drama - 2002 - 342 pages
...seventeenthcentury audience might regard as unnecessarily obscure language. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...me pale. Light thickens, And the crow makes wing to th'rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...afternoon light (Ill.i), and, still at the palace, he calls upon night: Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...me pale! Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. (III.ii.46-51) The light struck out during the murder of Banquo (Ill.iii) allows Fleance... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...night he invokes, like a metaphysical force, to obscure a cosmic eye of pity: Come seeling night Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Seeling is a falconry term for the practice of sewing closed the eyelids of the bird being trained... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Lighf thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? Ross — Macbeth II. iv Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Macbeth — Macbeth III.ii Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear... | |
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Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop... 
