...taking-off; And pity, like a naked, new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's Cherubims, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'er leaps itself And falls on the other [side]. Perhaps we can add a third passage with advantage,...

...socio-moral orthodoxy, the ties of kinsman, subject, and host; but what follows after is quite extraordinary: Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...deed in every eye That tears shall drown the wind. (16-25) It is the process, here, which is all-important: the process of amplification from Duncan's...

...taking-off; And Pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's Cherubins, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other — (1.7.18-28) Although murder (and not merely its "consequences") is prominently horrible...

...taking-off; And Pity, like a naked new-born baby, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself And falls on th' other. (82) Act n, Scene 1: The dinner is over, the guests retired. Except for a servant, Macbeth...

...can pay. (I, iv) 105 And Pity, like a naked newborn babe Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, e Vision of Sir Launfal 17 And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come th' other— (I, vii) 106 Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep,"...

...taking-off; And Pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's Cherubins, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other . . . I shall come back to this speech later, as it holds so many clues to speaking Shakespeare's...

...drives immediately into another simile that redirects us into a vision of warfare and destruction: ...Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so...every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.... (I, vii, ll. 16-25, emphasis added) Shakespeare's employs other devices, like synecdoche and metonymy,...

...drives immediately into another simile that redirects us into a vision of warfare and destruction: ...Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so...every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.... (I, vii, 11. 16-25, emphasis added) Shakespeare employs other devices, like synecdoche and metonymy, to...

...drives immediately into another simile that redirects us into a vision of warfare and destruction: ...Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so...every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.... (I, vii, 11. 16-25, emphasis added) Shakespeare employs other devices, like synecdoche and metonymy, to...

...drives immediately into another simile that redirects us into a vision of warfare and destruction: ...Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so...every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.... (I, vii, 11. 16-25, emphasis added) Shakespeare's employs other devices, like synecdoche and metonymy,...