 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, hold, hold ! Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives ; Words... | |
 | Phrenology - 1824 - 720 pages
...commit, that he invokes, even inanimate matter, not to inform against him : Thou sound and firm set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time Which now suits with it. This horror, it may be thought, might... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...stealthy pace, With Tarquiu's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear, The very stones prate of my wherc-about, And take the present horror from the time, Whicli now suits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...that has attentively read this dreadful soliloquy is disappointed at the conclusion, which, if riot wholly unintelligible, is at least obscure, nor can...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And talk—the present horror of the time ! That now suits with it. Macbeth has, in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...unintelligible, is at least obscure, nor can be explained into any sense worthy of the author. 1 shall therefor« propose a slight alteration. Thou sound and firm-set...not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stoues prate of my whcre-about, And talk — the present horror of the time 1 That now suits with it... | |
 | S-l J-n - 1825 - 338 pages
...sudden attitude of superiority and scorn, and slowly stalked out of the room. CHAPTER XIV. " Thou sura and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, While's I threat he lives, I go, and it is done." Shakspeare.... | |
 | 1825 - 298 pages
...sudden attitude of superiority and scorn, and slowly stalked out of the room. CHAPTER XXIV. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, • While's t threat he lives. I go, and it is done." Shakspcare.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...stealthy pace, [.-.im, With Tarqnin's ravishing strides, towards his deMoves like a ghost. Thou sure our game ! and so farewell. Pern. Stay yet, lord Salisbury; I'll go The very stones prate of my where-abont, And take the present horror from the time, Which now sails... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.4 — Whiles I threat, he lives ; Words... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost12. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they...fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it 13. — Whiles I threat, he lives ;... | |
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Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, 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. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps... 
