 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1845 - 500 pages
...he feels to press forward towards his object. In like manner, (it may be explained to him) to him, " If Chance will have me king, why Chance may crown me without my stir;" but far from acting on this view, rational as it appears, his conduct is throughout in direct... | |
 | 1846 - 116 pages
...of events, saying to himself, as even Macbeth observes, while ruminating on this prediction, — ' If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir ;' so that, according to Macbeth 's own admission, the words of the Weird Sisters on this occasion... | |
 | David R. B. Kimbell - 1981 - 724 pages
...imperial theme . . . . . . why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair . . . If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. Without my stir. But instead of treating them as the stages of a temptation, as in the play, Verdi's music suggests... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 pages
...smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. Banquo Look how our partner's rapt. Macbeth [.Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Banquo New honours come upon him, 145 Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But... | |
 | William Empson - 1986 - 262 pages
...there is no need for action; he is sure to become King. This actually occurs to him a few lines later ("If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me, / Without my stir"), and he seems to throw the idea aside till Duncan appoints Malcolm his next heir. Then it comes... | |
 | George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 pages
...smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. 140 Banquo. Look how our partner's rapt. Macbeth. If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir. Banquo. New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 246 pages
...to him out of the working of things, for which he is not responsible, without an effort of his own. If chance will have me king. Why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. That was the first stage of the growing crime which finally became murder. Sailing With the Current... | |
 | William Earl Weeks - 2002 - 256 pages
...confused state of Adams's mind in the months prior to the election of 1824. He muses that Macbeth's remark "If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir" reveals "a remnant of virtue yet struggling in the breast of that victim of unhallowed ambition... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pages
...point he is still treating time as something that cannot be avoided. One must await the outcome — "If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me, / Without my stir" (143). But even at this juncture, as he has been hailed as Thane of Cawdor and King hereafter,... | |
 | Frances E. Dolan - 1994 - 274 pages
...the central question. He first responds to the witches' predictions by disclaiming responsibility: "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir.""* Thereafter, he consistently refuses responsibility: 'Thou canst not say, I did it" (3.4.50).... | |
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New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould. But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. 
