...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.4 — Whiles I threat, he lives ; Words...

...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his desigu Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, •Which now suits with it.— Whiles I threat, he live* ; Words...

...his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his desigs Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm -set earth, Hear not my steps, which way...fear ' Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, VVhich now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, he lives; Woi'ds...

...pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.— Whiles I threat, he lives; Words...

...So, in act IV. sc. iii : " Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure." STEEV. ' Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.' The Commentators have interpreted the passage wrong.( They consider the words ' for fear' in the sense...

...fiTith(2)Tarqum's ravishing sides, tow'rds his design Moves likea ghost — Thou soundand firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it. (l) Now o'er one half the world...

...With($)Tarqmris ravishing sides, tow'rds his design Moves like a ghost — Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And (3) take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it. (l) Now o'er one half the world...

...murder, not perhaps very appropriately, with the rarishing strides of Tarquin. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, A ad take the present horror from the time, Which now tititf u-ilh it." Why should a murderer be solicitous...

...sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for...it . Macbeth has in the foregoing lines disturbed hi* imagination by enumerating all the terrors of the night ; at length he is wrought up to a degree...

...sense worthy of the author. I shall therefore propose a slight alteration. - Thou sound and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for...where-about, And talk — the present horror of the timeT -- Tlutt now suits• with it Macbeth has in the foregoing lines disturbed his imagination by...