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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! "
Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. Shaw - Page 125
by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1852 - 465 pages
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist

Charles Brockden Brown - 1998 - 346 pages
...in which heaven is said by the poet: Brown's note refers to Macbeth iv 53-4. The actual lines are, 'Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark | To cry, "Hold, hold!" ' 188 a Jesuit missionary: a member of the Society of Jesus, a highly regimented order of the Catholic...
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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other ...

1999 - 62 pages
...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!' (To MACBETH) Husband! (MACBETH moves to her.) LADY MACBETH. Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your...
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The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pages
...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!' (Iv41-55) Lady Macbeth's defiance of nature has its cause in something more than a depraved will to...
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The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Susannah York, William Shakespeare - 2001 - 124 pages
...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!' Act I, Scene 5 Duncan, Banquo, Lady Macduff and her children have all been slaughtered in Macbeth's...
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Social Cognition Through Drama and Literature for People with Learning ...

Nicola Grove, Keith Park - 2001 - 118 pages
...thick night And pal I thee in the dünnest 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'. Alternatively, you could create star images which can be used at other points in the play, perhaps...
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William Shakespeare: Othello

Nick Potter, Nicholas Potter - 2000 - 198 pages
...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! [I, v, 50-4[. Here, and in the King Lear extract, there is no clear visual effect as in Othello: tremendous...
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Historical Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 2002 - 1258 pages
...Lady Macbeth in which she asks the spirits to steel her to commit murder; see especially the lines: "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark /To cry, 'Hold, hold!'" (Macbeth 1.5.15354). 124.2-3. "In the Hornbeam Arbour!" ... 'in white robe of linon moucbete1: Oliva,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 pages
...natural scruples, turning her life-giving milk bitter, 'That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, /Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, /To cry, "Hold, hold!" ' (1.5.40-54). Lady Macbeth also perverts the meaning of manhood as a way of taunting her husband with...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 16

Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 212 pages
...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!' 'Hell', 'pall', 'knife', 'dark' — 'The peculiar and appropriate dress for Tragedy is a pall and a...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...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!" (Iv51-55) It should be dark in the murder scene, with the lights of people wrongfully moving about,...
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