 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.  Modern Eloquence - Page 734edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 190 pages
...48. Being o'er shoes in blood. Steevens compares Macbeth, iii. 4. 136-138: ' I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.' Cpleridge conjectured ' plunge in knee deep,' which Phelps adopted. The phrase ' over shoes ' in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 476 pages
...blood, that sin will pluck on sin.] The same reflections occur in Macbeth : " J am in blood " Step'd in so far, that should I wade no more, " Returning were as tedious,'" &c. Again : " Things bad begun make strong themselves iy ill." STEEVENS. 173. Is thy name — Tyrrei?]... | |
 | 1878 - 562 pages
...your former friend have hardened your own so far as to lead you to cry out with Macbeth, — " I nm in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er." After all, what has been the crime of the author of a History in which you have been named with so... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1802 - 538 pages
...difficult — and that most of mankind were disposed like Macbeth to think " I am in blood " Stept in to far, that should I wade no more " Returning were as tedious as go o'er';" and thus they pass towards the further bank, be the channel ever so wide, or the flood ever so deep... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pages
...know, By the worst means, the worst : for mine own gepd All causes shall give way ; 1 am in hlood Slept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er :s Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must he acted, ere they may he scann'd.9... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...By the worst means, the worst : for mine own g«od All causes shall give way ; I am in hlood Stcpt in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er :s Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must he acted, ere they may he scann'd.9... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pages
...By the worst means, the worst: for mine own geod All causes shall give way; 1 am in hlood Slept iti so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er: s Strange things 1 have in head, that will to hand; Which must he acted, ere they may he scann'd. 8... | |
 | William Combe - 1806 - 268 pages
...painful, and difficult ; and the greater part of guilty mortals adopt the sentiments of Macbeth : — •" I am in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no morev Returning were as bad as to go o'er." But to the purpose : I have another commission for you,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 380 pages
...they speak ; for now I am hent to know, By the worst means, the worst: for mine own good, All canses shall give way ; I am in blood Stept in so far, that , shonld 1 wade no more, Retnrning were as u'dions as go o'er: Strange things I have in head, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 346 pages
...weird sisters : More shall they speak ; 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 Stept in so far, that, should 1 wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things 1 have in head, that will to... | |
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