 | Stanley Cavell - 2003 - 276 sider
...denounce, or pray for, or command disbelief in, the "fiends / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep the word of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope" (III, viii, 19—22). The picture here is that to wish to rule out equivocation, the work of witches,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 486 sider
...of Argyll. 66.30 word of promise ... the ear seeAfnf£rfA,5.8.21-22:Macbeth recognises the witches 'keep the word of promise to our ear,/ And break it to our hope!'. 66.32 the other side of the Tweed by implication, to England. Since the town of Berwick had been English... | |
 | Brian Smith - 2002 - 224 sider
...therefore 1 'And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.' Act V, Sc. vm that some other person will be 'rightly led" by the same sign, or that the one originally... | |
 | Adam N. McKeown - 2004 - 104 sider
...ripped." "Damn these fiends!" said Macbeth. "Damn them all, who palter with us in a double sense, who keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope. I'll not fight with you." Macbeth dropped his sword. "Then yield to me, coward," said Macduff, "and... | |
 | Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald - 2004 - 724 sider
...recapitulation of those requirements, without which any attempt, not at ostensibly improving (for that is to "keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope"), but at really improving the nursing of the sick poor, at present admitted into workhouses, would be... | |
 | Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 sider
...through deception: And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That paltfi vith w to * 4°«ble sensej That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. (V.viii.i9-22) But by this time he has committed his soul beyond retreat. The witches offer to Banquo... | |
 | Louis J. Parascandola - 2005 - 498 sider
...Freedom to them has been like one of "those juggling fiends* That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope." In this connection, some explanation of the former political solidarity of those Negroes who were voters... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 sider
...part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense, 20 That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee. MACDUFF Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o'th' time.... | |
 | Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo, Leila Ryan - 2006 - 568 sider
...Fiasco Alice Henry And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. Shakespeare. The daily press has given prominence to the displays of indignant feeling shown by the... | |
 | Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gene Andrew Jarrett - 2007 - 614 sider
...freedom. Freedom to them has been like one of those juggling fiends That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. In this connection, some explanation of the former political solidarity of those Negroes who were voters... | |
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That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. 
