 The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is...  The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany - Page 921824Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...The hearing of my wife with your approach ; So, humbly take my leave. Dun, My worthy Cawdor ! Macb. The prince of Cumberland ! — That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, [Aside. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...The hearing of my wife with your approach : So, humbly take my leave. Dun. My worthy Cawdor ! Macb. The prince of Cumberland ! — That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, [Aside. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! I*t not light see my black and deep desires... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...approach ; S », humbly lake my leave. Dun. ' My worthy Cawdor! Jtfoc/j. The prince of Cumberland!— Thai ther's [Aside. For in my way it lies. S'ars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires... | |
 | Bernhard Dieckmann - Human sacrifice - 2001 - 312 pages
...sein schien, sogleich wieder gebracht, und er bringt seine Lage auf den Punkt, wenn er sagt: That isa step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,...fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. (I, iv, 48ff)21 schlecht sein; kann nicht gut sein.« (eigene Übers.) 17 Rene Girard, Das Heilige... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...murdering Duncan! And Malcolm is no sooner named Prince of Cumberland than Macbeth is privately musing, "That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, / For in my way it lies" (1.4. 42-50). In Macbeth's lifeless, formulaic pledge of allegiance, Traversi judges "his poetry attains,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 514 pages
...going out, stops, and speaks King. My worthy Cawdorl . . \ whilst the King talks with Banq. &c. Macb. The Prince of Cumberland \ that is a step On which. I must fall down, or else o're-leap; For in my way it lies. Stars! hide your fires, Let no light see my black and deep desires.... | |
 | José Limón - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 256 pages
...Hall, New York, 8 April 1960 Dancers: Jose Limon (The Thane), Pauline Koner (His Consort) Epigraph: "Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires." — Macbeth, Shakespeare Performance (Over the Footlights and Back) Variations on a theme of William... | |
 | Nicola Grove, Keith Park - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 118 pages
...quickly, and move the hand down out of vision - or over the eyes. Stars, hide your fires Let not night see my black and deep desires The eye wink at the hand Come, thick night And pal I thee in the dünnest smoke of hell That my keen knife see not the wound... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...(I.iii.), and the scene after that reveals the light in Duncan's palace, but also Macbeth's inner darkness: The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which...fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. (I.iv.48-51) As he approaches Macbeth's castle, Duncan, a man of light, says, 'This castle hath a pleasant... | |
 | Terrence Real - Communication in marriage - 2002 - 314 pages
...Macbeth usurper Macbeth prays for darkness; he knows he cannot bear to perform his crime while seeing it: "Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light see my black...be, / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." "Come, thick night," Lady Macbeth adds, "and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell / That my keen... | |
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