...verschwunden, da sie ihr Ziel als erreicht betrachtet und sie versucht, ihren Mann zu beschwichtigen: „Come on. Gentle my lord, [s]leek o'er your rugged looks, be bright and jovial among your guests tonight"*3. In ähnlicher Weise hatte Macbeth versucht, sie im ersten Akt zu vertrösten: "We will...

...we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In sleeplessness. Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. LADY MACBETH: MACBETH: LADY MACBETH: MACBETH: Treason has done its worst; neither steel nor poison,...

...from being stored in a dark, underground place. Shakespeare's Macbeth claims of his murdered victim, "Duncan is in his grave. / After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" (Ill.ii. 22-23). The paintings implicitly contrast with dead soldiers, who cannot be resurrected, and...

...favorite play. The tragedy of the man of ambition, the creature of destiny. He recited the lines — Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well . . . Lincoln lingered over the poetry. He tried to fathom Macbeth 's state of mind. The "dark deed...

...cast their shadows before," from the poem "Lochiel's Warning" (1801). 2 Shakespeare, Macbeth HI.ii.23, "Duncan is in his grave; after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." 3 New Burying Ground, Constitution Road] a cemetery on a street that runs from the north into the center...

...dreams, That shake us nightly: better be with the dead . . . Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. David Donald then notes that: Struck by the weird beauty of the lines, Lincoln paused, as Chambrun...