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" The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife... "
Macbeth ; Poems and sonnets. Glossary - Page 16
by William Shakespeare - 1867
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...passages ; but he has instances of still greater boldness. Among these may be named Lady Macheth's — " Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark, To cry Hold, hold I" Here " blanket of the dark " runs to so high a pitch, that divers critics, Coleridge among them,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 420 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out 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 ! In this passage is exerted all the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out ; .. 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 ! In this passage is exerted all the...
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...peace between The effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murthering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold, hold!"— When she first hears that " Duncan...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 36

1834 - 918 pages
...nor is there any smothering with kisses. " Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest arauke of hell! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold! hold! Great Glamls ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter Macbdh. Greater than both, by the all-hail HEREThy letter» have...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 30

1831 - 1008 pages
...delicate." And how does Lady Macbeth receive her king ? — she who some short hour before had said, " Come ! thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound It makes !" Why, she receives her king as a lady should, with bland aspect and a gentle voice, but over -courteously,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 74

1853 - 816 pages
...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...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 362 pages
...it ! Come to my woman's breasts, 3 Diadem. 4 Supernatural. And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...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...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...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...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...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...
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