 | 1853
...Lady Macbeth, revolving the murder of Duncan, says, " Come, thick night, And pall thee in thedunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound...makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the night, To cry, Hold 1 hold!" The darkness prayed for is the thickest that can be procured, and therefore... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817
...mi-rhiedinne to nature, violation of nature's order comjnilteil by Kir-kednei-i. JOHNSON That my keen knife9 see not the wound it makes -, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the <brk, To cry, Huid, hold." - Great Glarnis ! worthy Cawdor !' Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818
...Supernatural. And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief; Come, thick night,...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, Hold! Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter ! Thy letters... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out amidst his emptions into a wish natural to a murderer ; Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 323 páginas
...breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murtheriug ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the duunest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 27 páginas
...possible, to ascertain with precision. Even in our own language this is the case. Shakspeare says, — " Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, Hold ! Hold ! " Here, Johnson understands him as presenting the ludicrous conception of " the ministers of vengeance,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 323 páginas
...ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night t And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen kuife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold, hold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819
...sightless substances . You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dünnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold! — Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter ! Thy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
...king, he breaks out 166 THE RAMBLER. No. 168. amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer: Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold 1 In this passage is exerted all the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...in A Warning for Faire Women, 1599, a tragedy which was certainly prior to Macbeth : And pall thee 2 in the dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife...; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark 4, " O sable night, sit on the eye of heaven, " That it discern not this black deed of darkness ! "... | |
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You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold! 
