 | Issan Chunder Benerjeea - 1865 - 192 pages
...The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offering ; and wither 'd murder Alarmed by his sentinel ; the wolf Whose howl's his watch,...towards his [design Moves like a ghost,— Thou sure and firm et earth Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for [fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 488 pages
...bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. — Now o'er the one-half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now...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... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offering : and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the...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... | |
 | Styan - Drama - 1965 - 168 pages
...easy to forget Macbeth on the point of going to King Duncan's room to murder him : wither'd murther, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his...firm-set earth Hear not my steps, which way they walk . . . art. Even in reading, the imagination is fired as the poetry vividly creates a living portrait... | |
 | J. L. Styan - Drama - 1967 - 260 pages
...Macbeth's rhythmic lines are the index of his slowing, cautious steps toward his victim: . , , M , Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (Macbeth, n, i, 52-6) In this word-picture, the player is invited to mime a vision of 'Murder', crouched... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 116 pages
...refers ; 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...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (n, i, 49-56) -1 What is to be learnt by turning back to the sententious Rape of Lucrece, with its... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offrings, and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.50-57) His attempt is only partly successful; for a disjunction between the self and the deed,... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...abuse The curtained sleep. Withcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (II.i.49-56) As Peter Ure says, Macbeth creates "an objective vision of himself in which he is assimilated... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - Cardinal virtues - 1990 - 260 pages
...exaltation, fascinated by the spectacle of his own sinister intent: . . . and wither'd murder, Alarum' d by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.65 Macbeth's terror at what he is doing goes with his dramatizing himself as a criminal and monster.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Heccat's offerings; and withered Murther, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,38 Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And... | |
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Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now 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,... 
