 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides toward his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout ; And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1839 - 442 pages
...âmni — in respect of where he is, or of hi» wltere-about ; as Shakesp. Macbeth, Act ii. Se. i : " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about." Expressed at greater length, the sentence would be тр. 'Атр. «ii. Kupowff Sitas Kvpti, clearly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...like a ghost. 2 Thou sure and firm-set earth, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 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. 3 —Whiles I threat, he lives;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...his stealthy 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 The very stones prate of my where-about, Which now suits with it *—Whiles I threat, he lives; And... | |
 | Robert Barnwell Rhett - 1841 - 19 pages
...remember, these were the words of a murderer, who, whilst stealing to his fell purpose, could whisper — " Thou sure and firm,set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout." The constitution may be murdered at this session — murdered... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...unintelligible, at least obscure. I confess I do not perceive anything unintelligible in the passage. " Thou sure and firmset earth, Hear not my steps, which...; for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it." The meaning is this. He cries out... | |
 | 1842 - 916 pages
...personification of murder, not perhaps very appropriately, with the ravishing strides of Tarquin. " Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it" Whv should a murderer be solicitous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 396 pages
...With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 1 Haft or handle. ' Drops. Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which...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... | |
 | London univ, King's coll - 1842 - 686 pages
...obscure. I confess I do not perceive anything unintelligible in the passage. " Thou sure and finnsct earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk ; for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, That now suits with it" The meaning is this. He cries out... | |
 | William Trollope - 1842 - 626 pages
...Shakspeare, also, more than once employs a similar expression. Macbeth, II. 1. Thou sure and firm set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Jul. Caes. III. 2. And put a tongue... | |
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Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps... 
