 | 1849 - 544 pages
...conspicuous part; so much so, that our authoress probably thought with Maebeth — I am in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go on. And accordingly, "Owen Tudor" was written to show how much slaughter and violent crime an " historical... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1849 - 538 pages
...conspicuous part; so much so, that our authoress probably thought with Macbeth— I am in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go on. And accordingly, "Owen Tudor" was written to show how much slaughter and violent crime an "historical... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...circumstance ? Thus, in Macbeth's address to his wife, on the first appearance of Banquo's ghost: — Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scanned. Lady... | |
 | John Alan Roe - 2002 - 238 pages
...sounds a depth close to that plumbed by Macbeth when he muses on the moral impasse bloodletting creates: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. (3.4.136-8) The latter part of the play abounds with anticipations of Macbeth. As the lords leave,... | |
 | Prudence Foster - 2002 - 253 pages
...always liked about Fort McIntyre is that we don't have much of this sort of thing." BOOK TWO Carnage I am in blood stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er. —Shakespeare, Macbeth VILLAGERS' UNREST GROWS AS ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIG IN CASTLE RUINS Cachtice, Czechoslovakia—Waving... | |
 | Gisèle Venet - 2002 - 350 pages
...most admir'd disorder» ; et 120 : «Stand not upon the order of your going». 20. III, IV, 137-139 : «I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far, that should I...wade no more / Returning were as tedious as go o'er» ; V, V, 17-18 : «She should have died hereafter. / There would have been a time for such a word»... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...for now I am bent to know By the worst means the worst. For mine own good All causes shall give way. I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. (III.iv.134-38) If the future is determined, all causes shall not give way, but Macbeth doesn't believe... | |
 | Jan Kott - 2002 - 282 pages
...è soltanto una metafora: è qualcosa di materiale e di fisico, qualcosa che cola dal corpo degli 3 [I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er.j 4 [What bloody man is that?] 5 [Where we are, / There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - 2002 - 200 pages
..."confusion of the brain."4 After his murders of Duncan and Banquo, Macbeth finds himself "in blood/Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, /Returning were as tedious as go o'er" (III. iv. 135-137). He resigns himself stoically to stand firm through what may be eternal torment (like a chained... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 pages
...all things but his own safety : For mine own good, All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepn'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. (in. iv. 1 35) A vast sea of blood and crime. So, addressing the mysterious sisters of evil in their... | |
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For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd. 
