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" Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. "
The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ... - Page 26
1895 - 323 pages
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...his taking-off: And pity, like a naked new-bom babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, honed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...conclusion." And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. — I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself,...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...of his taking-off, And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...deed in every eye That tears shall drown the wind. (1.7.16-25) At first, then, there is a clear contrast between the two. As the play progresses their...
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The Guide to Literary Terms

Gail Rae - 1998 - 124 pages
...virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast,...in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.... Act 1, scene vii: lines 16 - 25 Shakespeare employs other devices, like synecdoche and metonymy, to...
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En torno a la cultura popular de la risa: nuevos fragmentos de M.M. Batjín ...

Sergeĭ Sergeevich Averint︠s︡ev - 2000 - 228 pages
...naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, orheaven's chentbin, hors'd Upon íhesighttess couriers o! 'the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drawn the wind. [1,7.] MACBETH. Now o'er the one-half 'world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse...
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William Blake

Basil De Selincourt - 2000 - 396 pages
...virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off : And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...taking-off; / And Pity, like a naked new-born babe, / Striding the blast, or heaven's Cherubms, hors'd / Upon the sightless couriers of the air, / Shall blow...deed in every eye, /That tears shall drown the wind. [I.vii. 16-25] tamos exactamente cómo y por qué esa gran voz brota a través de la conciencia de...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature

Pat Rogers - 2001 - 580 pages
...murdi of Duncan, are — pity, like a naked new-born babe. Striding the blasr, or heaven's cherubin hoi Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye. . . By 'sightless couriers of the air', Shakespea meant the invisible winds. But Blake's Shakespeare...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 pages
...Duncan's virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off And pity, like a naked newborn babe Striding the blast,...deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. But in this famous, visionary passage, Macbeth refers to human pity, and to a universal human perception...
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Shakespeare: For All Time

Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pages
...of Macbeth's lines, And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...deed in every eye That tears shall drown the wind. (Macbeth, 1.7.21—5) The climax of the eighteenth-century interest in Shakespeare and the visual arts...
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