 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...to gain our place, have sent to peace, Then on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave : After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...seed of Banquo kings." In the agitation of his thoughts, he envies those whom he has sent !o peace. " Duncan is in his grave ; after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." It is true, he becomes more callous as he plunges deeper in guilt, " direness is thus made familiar... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 440 pages
...to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy .1 Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - 1994 - 396 pages
...five days before his death, had, on board the River Queen, read from Macbeth to a circle of guests: "Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." It was his new grave, however, that held fitful fever for Abraham Lincoln. Neither the East, which... | |
 | Marcus Noll - 1994 - 184 pages
...wife, hath bid this world goodnight. (Richard ///,IV,3,38 -39) über das lapidar-bedeutungsschwangere "Duncan is in his grave, after life's fitful fever he sleeps well" (IQ, 2,24- 25) Macbeths bis hin zur poetischen Transformation in Prosperos berühmtem "our little life... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 pages
...author, Shakespeare. He loved Macbeth above all the other plays and from it spoke the pensive lines: Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pages
...nightly: better be with the dead . . . Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After life's fitful fever he sleeps well, Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...who seems best to understand, and most to sympathize with, the old king should have the last word: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch... | |
 | Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 pages
...gash / Is added to her wounds" (3.3.40-41). Duncan, meanwhile, is beyond the reach of Macbeth's sword: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - 1999 - 460 pages
...moved, and moving, with the verses in "Macbeth" in which Macbeth speaks of Duncan's assassination: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch... | |
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Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. 
