...in Ireland, not confessing Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers With strange invention. 9. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace,...the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. 10. Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As...

...'twere best not know myself. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace,...the torture of the mind to lie, In restless ecstasy. [2.2.58, 72; 2.3.91-2; 3.2.19-22] Macbeth thus describes the fate worse than death familiar to all...

...come apart, let heaven and earth perish Before we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the misery of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better...to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In sleeplessness. Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. LADY MACBETH: MACBETH:...

...König beneidet, daß er alles, die ganze Welt aufs Spiel setzt, um dies nicht mehr ertragen zu müssen: "Better be with the dead,/ Whom we, to gain our peace,...the torture of the mind to lie/ In restless ecstasy" (III. ii. 19-22) (vgl. Neis 89). Doch anstatt daß sich nun Frieden auf ihn herabsenkte, steigt nach...

...cast their shadows before," from the poem "Lochiel's Warning" (1801). 2 Shakespeare, Macbeth HI.ii.23, "Duncan is in his grave; after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." 3 New Burying Ground, Constitution Road] a cemetery on a street that runs from the north into the center...

...from being stored in a dark, underground place. Shakespeare's Macbeth claims of his murdered victim, "Duncan is in his grave. / After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" (Ill.ii. 22-23). The paintings implicitly contrast with dead soldiers, who cannot be resurrected, and...

...favorite play. The tragedy of the man of ambition, the creature of destiny. He recited the lines — Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well . . . Lincoln lingered over the poetry. He tried to fathom Macbeth 's state of mind. The "dark deed...

...only to find it impossible to escape tormenting guilt: ... we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly: better be with the dead . . . Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After life's...