 | Wolfgang Clemen - 2004 - 256 pages
...his evil intentions. Shortly after the apostrophe to the 'seeling night' quoted above come the lines: Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse. (in, ii, 50) This is a particularly effective... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 280 pages
...a movement into gathering thickness or darkness is of course often explicitly described by Macbeth: Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse. (III.ii.50-3) I need not multiply instances.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me paled! Light thickens, and the crow 50 Makes wing to th' rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold... | |
 | David John Farmer - 2005 - 248 pages
....... Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Smith was also an admirer of Voltaire's Oedipe. This is the play in which Oedipus is twice threatened... | |
 | Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 pages
...Banquo : Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! (III.ii.48-52) 1 See PN Siegel, Shakespearean Tragedy and the Elizabethan Compromise, p. 145 ; MDH... | |
 | Stuart Sillars - 2006 - 388 pages
...birds are shown flying towards the trees. They recall words from Macbeth's pivotal speech in Act 3: Light thickens, And the crow makes wing to th' rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their preys do rouse. (3.2.50-53) In presenting the crows flying... | |
 | Russ McDonald - 2006 - 173 pages
...matter) color Macbeth's meditation on the growing darkness as he contemplates the murder of Banquo: light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse. (3.2.50-53) 9 Introduction, pp. 51—52.... | |
 | Sam Dowling - 2007 - 90 pages
...knowledge dearest chuck 48 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful Day And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which...me pale. Light thickens And the crow makes wing to the rooky wood Good things of Day begin to droop and drowse Whiles Night's black agents to their preys... | |
 | Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 pages
...Szene: Come, seeling Night,/ Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful Day,/ And, with thy bloody and invisible hand,/ Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond / Which keeps me pale ! Light thickens; [...]/ Good things of Day begin to droop and drowse,/ Whiles Night's black agents to their preys do... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2008 - 346 pages
...Come, seeling night, / Scarf up th.e tender eye of pitiful day, /And with thy bloody and invisible hand / Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond / Which keeps me pale. There is, however, no direct proof of a connection between Smith and Shakespeare. 34. Charles Darwin,... | |
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Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! 
