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" Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; 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, With Tarquin's ravishing strides,... "
The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy ... - Page 382
by William Shakespeare - 1811
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The King's college literary and scientific magazine [afterw.] King's college ...

London univ, King's coll - 1842 - 686 pages
...obscure. I confess I do not perceive anything unintelligible in the passage. " Thou sure and finnsct earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk ; for...whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it" The meaning is this. He cries out to the earth not to hear him, lest the very...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 52

1842 - 850 pages
...personification of murder, not perbaps very appropriately, with the ravishing strides of Tarquin. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, Asd take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it," Whv should a murderer be solicitous...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 450 pages
...'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..., Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives: Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings. I go , and it is done : the...
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 406 pages
...howl 's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing sides," towards his design, Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,...time, Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat he lives : Words to the beat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings. I go, and it is done ; the...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth9, Hear not my steps, which way they walki, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about,...time, Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives : Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings. I go, and it is done : the...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth9, Hear not my steps, which way they walki, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about,...time, Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives : Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings. I go, and it is done : the...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design And, Hymen, now with luckier issue speeds, Than this,...up this woe ! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. — A Room in Leo wherc-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat,...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...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 whereabout, And take the present...time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives : Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell ringe. I go, and it is done ; the...
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...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 whereabout, And take the present...time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives : Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. [A bell rings. I go, and it is done ; the...
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Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakespeare

Alexander Dyce - 1843 - 350 pages
...which Mr. Knight has transplanted into his notes. The passage last cited is immediately followed by, " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about," &c. in which the old copies have " which they may walk," — and Tieck defends the original reading,...
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