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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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National Review, Volume 17

1863 - 584 pages
...she hears her husband is coming, and the king after him : " Thou'rt mad to say it," she says ; and " the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements." The time and place had made themselves, then; and on hearing this it is that she suddenly changes from...
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The National Review, Volume 17

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 580 pages
...she hears her husband is coming, and the king after him : " Thou'rt mad to say it," she says ; and " the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements." The time and place had made themselves, then ; and on hearing this it is that she suddenly changes...
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Chamber's household edition of the dramatic works of ..., Part 34, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1863 - 374 pages
...Than would make up his message. Lady M. Give TIJTTI tending, He brings great news. [Exit Attendant. 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...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 868 pages
...more Than would make up his message. LADY M. Give him tending, He brings great news. [Exit Attendant. un Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex roe here ; And fill me, from the crown to the...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...is too full o' the milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way. — Sc. 5. Lady Macbeth. . . . 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...
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The English of Shakespeare Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on His ...

George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 406 pages
...the similar prolongation of the -trance in the sublime chant of Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, i. 5) :— " The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my hattlemeiits;"— or with what we have in the following line in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4,...
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All the Year Round, Volume 10

1864 - 1238 pages
...melodious echoes the poets. Lady Macbeth uses a popular illustration when she exclaims : The raven is hoarse that croaks The fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements. Woden, the Scandinavian Jupiter, is called the god of the ravens. "Three ravens," says the prose Edda,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with Biographical Introduction by ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 488 pages
...Would have inform'd for preparation. Lady M. Give him tending, He brings great news. [Exit Attendant. 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...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...more Than would make up his message. Lady M. Give him tending ; He brings great news. [Exit Messenger. 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,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear. Othello ...

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 pages
...more Than would make up his message. Lady M. Give him tending ; He brings great news. [Exit Attendant. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits(24) That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to...
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