...Without instituting invidious comparisons, we ing:— In Macbeth — "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence," etc. In Hamlet ; •' He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look," etc. The former passage,...

...to the extraordinary, kaleidoscopic sliding from one metaphor to another in Macbeth 's lines, If th' assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and...here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here, that we but teach Bloody...

...extent'. He illustrates this from the lines in Macbeth (i, vii) : But here, upon this bank and school of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these...judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions. He then comments on the imagery of the passage : Bank is used for bench, and time, for mortal life;...

...He is all nervy and dithery. Later on, again talking of the murder: If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination...consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success . . . (l. vii. i) You cannot speak it smoothly; you get tied up with the dentals and sibilants; it...

...referring to what is about to happen as an "it" repeated three times. The next sentence does begin If th' assassination Could trammel up the consequence and catch With his surcease, success, using two words, assassination and surcease, that hiss like snakes alongside success and seem to refer...

...in the section about the CICA on page 278 that outlines the process. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. If the assassination...the life to come. But in these cases we still have judgement here that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor....

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...Whitman." I swiftly brushed past him and hurried into Ford's. If th' assassination Chapter Fourteen Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his...this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. "Evenin', Mr. Booth." Ford's doorman, John Buckingham — Old Buck, as most of us knew him — grinned...

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