 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...explained into any sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk — the present horror of the time ! That now suits with it • Macbeth has, in the foregoing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 440 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 476 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his desigu Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, •Which now suits with it.— Whiles I threat, he live*... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.4 — Whiles I threat, he lives... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou "sure and firm-set 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 pages
...thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.— Whiles I threat, he lives; Words... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 pages
...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his desigs Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm -set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear ' Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, VVhich now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives;... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...inserted it in the text. So, in act IV. sc. iii : " Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure." STEEV. ' Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.' The Commentators have interpreted the passage wrong.( They consider the words ' for fear' in the sense... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...blank, Transports his poison'd shot — may miss our name, And hit the woundless air." Ibid., iv. L "Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...explained into any sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk — the present horror of the time! That now suits with it Macbeth has, in the foregoing lines,... | |
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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, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps... 
