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... Macbeth's mad and useless murders make Scotland a shambles . Like Hitler's Germany , he has spies everywhere : ' There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee'd ' ( III . iv . 131 ) . This is no twisting of great ...
... Macbeth's mad and useless murders make Scotland a shambles . Like Hitler's Germany , he has spies everywhere : ' There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee'd ' ( III . iv . 131 ) . This is no twisting of great ...
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... Macbeth by the Weird Sisters of a power combining child - purity ( as in our naked new - born babe ' ) , nature and sovereignty , a combination which , at long last , must win . The apparition is a child crowned , with a tree in his ...
... Macbeth by the Weird Sisters of a power combining child - purity ( as in our naked new - born babe ' ) , nature and sovereignty , a combination which , at long last , must win . The apparition is a child crowned , with a tree in his ...
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... Macbeth tries to cut off Britain's future history at its root . But Fleance escapes . In Macbeth and Banquo two ways of serving both time and eternity are contrasted , and they cannot readily mix . But notice that in this ...
... Macbeth tries to cut off Britain's future history at its root . But Fleance escapes . In Macbeth and Banquo two ways of serving both time and eternity are contrasted , and they cannot readily mix . But notice that in this ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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