...latter class we again encounter the erudite Doctor. " That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold! hold!'" Upon this passage, Dr. Johnson, in the Rambler, No. 168, remarks thus : — •' Lady Macbeth proceeds...

...night, And pall thee9 in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To...present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Macb. My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. Lady M. And when goes hence ? Macb. To-morrow, as...

...night , . And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell , That my keen knife see noth the wound it makes , Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark ,...present , and I feel now The future in the instant. Macb. My dearest love , Duncan comes here to-night. Lady M. And when goes hence? Macb. To-morrow, as...

...night, And pall thee9 in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Xor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry,...present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Macb. My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. Lady M. And when goes hence ? Macb. To-morrow, as...

...thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry 'Hold, hold!' (To MACBETH) Husband! (MACBETH moves to her.) LADY MACBETH. Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your...

...Rockingham Castle, of course, and this time he is paraphrasing Lady Macbeth's devotion to the future: Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by...This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in an instant.30 For this kind of thinking, Duncan is merely a detail. The expression foretells but one...

...that matters arc growing Ripe. — William Cookson, Mayor of Leeds, to Lord Fitzwilliam, July 1801 Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant...I feel now The future in the instant. — Macbeth, 1.5.57-59 In September and October of 1802, during the lull in the Continental War named the Peace...

...future, as if the consequential movement of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow could somehow be finessed: 'Thy letters have transported me beyond | This ignorant...present, and I feel now | The future in the instant' (1. 5. 55—7). Macbeth's own further reaction ('If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well |...

...thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry 'Hold, hold!' (Iv41-55) Lady Macbeth's defiance of nature has its cause in something more than a depraved will to...

...conversation between the victorious lord and his lady upon his first arriving home from the wars: Lady Much: Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by...and I feel now The future in the instant. Macbeth: Lady Macb: Macbeth: Lady Macb: Duncan comes here to-night. To-morrow, as he purposes. My dearest love,...