John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
1378 |
Memory, the warder of the brain. |
Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. |
1379 |
There ’s husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1380 |
Shut up In measureless content. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1381 |
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1382 |
Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1383 |
Now o’er the one half-world Nature seems dead. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1384 |
Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1385 |
The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
1386 |
It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern’st good-night. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 |
1387 |
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 2 |
1388 |
I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” Stuck in my throat. |
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 3 |
1389 |
Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!” the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, |
Note 1. Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back] |
Note 2. Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back] |
Note 3. Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back] |