 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 sider
...solemn"1 strange*1 and mingled"1 air. — Collins. Now o'er the one half world Nature Seems dead, aud wicked dreams Abuse the curtain'd sleep : now 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 78 sider
...before. — There's no such thing ! It is the bloody business, which informs I Thus to mine eyes. — Now o'er the one half world, Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and withered murder, Alarumed... | |
 | Janet Spens - 1916 - 126 sider
...an attendant with him whom he dismisses, soliloquizing in something the same strain. Macbeth says: " Now o'er the one half world 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hake, Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1916 - 398 sider
...to his stopping at Duncan's bedroom door, dagger in hand, to moralize after this fashion : — " ' Now, o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep : now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offering,' etc. ? Admirable thoughts, if... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1919 - 1026 sider
...perpetration of his horrid deed. In the drapery of the Night he wraps himself — and at that hour when "O'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleeper," he steals forth to the accomplishment of his bloody design. Afraid of his own movements,... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 sider
...before. — There's no such thing : It is the bloody business, which informs Thus to mine eyes. — Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep : withcraf t celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1902 - 236 sider
...natural to any man, howsoever philosophically minded, in Macbeth's situation. Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; now Witchcraft cele- _ brates Pale Hecate's offering; and wither'd Murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf. Whose... | |
 | Dennis Bartholomeusz - 1969 - 336 sider
...such thing. . . It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes . . . Now o'er one half the world, Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse...witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings : and wither'd murder, (Alarmed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch) thus with his stealthy... | |
 | Paul Epstein, Richard Schechner - 1978 - 84 sider
...man's act, threatens his bloody stage. By the clock 'tis day and yet dark night strangles the sun. O'er the one half world nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep. DP 2. Tis unnatural. Last Tuesday a falcon, towering in her pride, was by a mousing... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - 1979 - 294 sider
...Lambcs, pure thoughts are dead and still, While Lust and Murder wakes to staine and kill. (162-168.) Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep: Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered Murther, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the... | |
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Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. 
