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The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes - Page 484
by William Shakespeare - 1745
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...conjures up a horrified vision of the universe in mourning: this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off, And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...
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The Guide to Literary Terms

Gail Rae - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 124 pages
...us into a vision of warfare and destruction: . . . Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...
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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other ...

Drama - 1999 - 62 pages
...LADY MACBETH, guiltily). He hath honored me of late. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off. Tears shall drown the wind. (LADY MACBETH...
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English Matters, Volume 3

Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. | R PS iHp S; this Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-oft. ... I have no spinTo prick the sides...
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Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...in soliloquy, he produces the saintly king - as a mirror. "This Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office, that his virtues / Will plead like angels" (I. vii. 16-19). Duncan's polished surface: is it the representation of an absolute power or the mirror...
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William Blake

Basil De Selincourt - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 396 pages
...over to himself the possible consequences of Duncan's murder : This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off : And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...villanos de Shakespeare. Sin embargo nos pregun7. Besides, this Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office, that...virtues / Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu'd against /The deep damnation of his taking-off; / And Pity, like a naked new-born babe, / Striding the...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...kinsman. (A change comes over his face, a look of doubt. The drums stop.) He hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off. l6 (Enter Lady Macbeth.) MACBETH How...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 39

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...compassionate, and regal. Of him even devilish Macbeth testifies that he 'hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office, that...virtues / Will plead like angels, trumpettongu'd, against / The deep damnation of his taking-off (7.17-20).1 Macbeth's politics are cyclical, and the...
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Shakespeare's Hand

Jonathan Goldberg - Drama - 2003 - 398 pages
...In soliloquy, he produces the saintly king, but as a mirror: This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels. (1.7.16-19) Duncan's polished surface: is it the representation of an absolure power or the mirror...
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