 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 120 pages
...prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. I thank you, gentlemen. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Oh ! del tremendo imaginar, men dura Del terror la presenza. II mio pensiero, Ch' ora i solo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1967 - 212 pages
...swelling Act Of the imperial theme. - I thank you, gentlemen. (astde) This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose... | |
 | Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...it is clear that Macbeth is already yielding to the evil in his heart : This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix tny hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less... | |
 | David R. B. Kimbell - Music - 1981 - 724 pages
...rational or philosophical contemplation of the future - in such terms as This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? (1.3) and If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...swelling act Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.— [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...witness that his selfhood is disjoined from the heroic image he projects: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? (1.3.130-37) The rhetorical balance of opposites dramatizes Macbeth's... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - Drama - 1992 - 320 pages
...drive him to its center, to image. Indeed, all facts meld into images. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: — If ill, why hath...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?' (Richard 7/I.3.294) 'This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: If ill, why hath it...unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...resemblances remain. Macbeth does open his mind to diabolical promptings: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? (1.3.130) He imagines himself, moreover, to have received immunities... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...fair promise is followed in his imagination by the fantasy of murder. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it...why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image does unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? (1.3.144-51)... | |
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This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make... 
