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" The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Page 396
by James Boswell - 1786
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...situation of the old castle corresponds exactly to Skakspeare's description. While we were there to-dav, it happened oddly, that a raven perched upon one of the chimney-tops, and croaked. Then I in my turit repeated — • The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under...
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Macbeth: A Cragedy in Five Acts

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 78 pages
...Than would make up his message. Lady M. Give him tending — He brings great news. [Exit Seyton, L. The raven himself is hoarse, • That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, all you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63

1848 - 816 pages
...buttressed, fortified, and gloomy, — where the lady in a vaulted half-lighted chamber may say : " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." The timber edifice on such an eminence as the Peel Bog — probably, as the sagacious Lord Hailcs imagines,...
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A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement ..., Volume 1

Robert Bolton - 1848 - 672 pages
...the approach of Duncan, whose death she had conspired, is made to say in the language of the poet, "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements." — Macbeth, Act 1. scene 5. This ill omened bird, once, very numerous on our coasts, has long since...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...yet would wrongly win. All that is coming is clear before her, through the foree of her will : — " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements." Upon the arrival of Macheth, the breathless rapidity with which she subjects him to her resolve is...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...surpris'd aghast, And wond'ring at her own : how reason reels ! Oh, what a miracle to man is man. 112. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to...
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Notes and Queries

1892 - 688 pages
...drope of sorrow. la the ' Agamemnon ' "Joy is stealing over me that calls forth a tear." Lady Hacbeth. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. " And standing over the corpse in defiance of what is right, like an odious raven in my eyee, she exults...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...situation of the old castle corresponds exactly to Shakspeare's description. While we were there to-day it happened oddly that a raven perched upon one of...battlements." I wish you had been with us. Think what enthusiastic happiness I shall have to see Mr. Samuel Johnson walking among the romantic rocks und...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...Shakespeare, was an ex pression of endearment. LADY MACBETH'S SOLH.OQ.UY ON THE NEWS ow DUNCAN'S APPROACH. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, come, you spirits That tend on mortal* thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me, from the crown to...
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The New American Speaker: A Collection of Oratorical and Dramatical Pieces ...

John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, come, you spirits "hat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to...
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