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" Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps ittelf And falls on the other. "
Prolusiones academicæ - Page 42
by Cambridge univ - 1852 - 120 pages
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Macbeth. King John

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...of his taking-off : And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only 461 Vaulting ambition, which o'erlcaps itself, And falls on the other. — How now ! what news I Inter...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...probability to the supposition that this tragedy had appeared before that year: . " I have no spar " To prick the sides of my intent, but only " Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself «' And falls at the other" At the time when Macbeth is supposed to have been written, the subject, it is probable,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 442 pages
...of his taking-off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only would then be best to do it quickly : if the murder could terminate in itself, and restrain the regular...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...of his taking-off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only would then be best to do it quickly : if the murder could terminate in itself, and restrain the regular...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 2

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 454 pages
...spur, but our own cause, " To prick us to redress ?" We find in Macbeth a similar expression : " ,- I have no spur, " To prick the sides of my intent, but only " Vaulting ambition," &c. 300. " Such suffering souls " That welcome wrongs." Concord requires, here, the comparative conjunction...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 2

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 450 pages
...spur, but our own cause, " To prick us to redress ?" We find in Macbeth a similar expression : " — I have no spur, " To prick the sides of my intent, but onlj " Vaulting ambition," &c. 300. " Such suffering souls That welcome wrongs."Concord requires, here,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pages
...winds, air in motion. Sightless is in-oisiofe. Shall hlow the horrid deed in every eye, That tedrs shall drown the wind.* — I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, hut only Vaulting amhition/ which o'er-lcaps itself, Again, in this play : " Wherever in your sightless...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 386 pages
...reading: yet I have no doubt that the poet wrote : / leap into the seat, . So, in Macbeth : " —— — I have no spur " To prick the sides of my intent,...only " Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself," &c. On ship-hoard the pain and pleasure may be in the proportion here stated ; but the troubles of...
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Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV., part I

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...of his taking-off : And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd UpOn the sightless couriers of the air, Shall...no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only would then be best to do it quickly : if the murder could terminate in itself, and restrain the regular...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...oherubin, honM t'pnn the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, Tint tears shall drown the wind.— I have no spur To prick...sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which oVr-leaps itself. And falls on the other.— How now, what news ? Enter Lady Macbeth. lady M. He has...
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