 | 636 pagine
...in the same category with " 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 t " In what world are we ? What sinner of us would endure such questions seriously asked of himself?... | |
 | Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - 1995 - 512 pagine
...the prima facie case while paying lip service to Strauder the Court today allies itself with those "that keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope." . . . Were it necessary to make an absolute choice between the right of a defendant to have a jury... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 pagine
...5.8.19-22: "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep the word of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope." unity may be, diversity—that is to say, investigation and discussion—is better, so long as we have... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1995 - 238 pagine
...they use words that are true at some level but not in the way that their victim could understand. They "keep the word of promise to our ear / And break it to our hope" (5.8.21-22). It is what Banquo had predicted on the heath (1.3.123-26): And oftentimes, to win us to... | |
 | Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg - 1996 - 212 pagine
...Broken Promises "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. " —SHAKESPEARE "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." —FRANCOIS,... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 pagine
...that he was not of woman born, Macbeth realizes that "these juggling fiends" use a double sense and "keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope" (5.8.19-22). At this point, he fights on merely to save a bit of dignity, to avoid being ridiculed.... | |
 | Brian Richardson - 1997 - 236 pagine
...hand-carried by Malcolm's invading forces. The hags do seem to quibble "with us in a double sense,/ That keep the word of promise to our ear/ And break it to our hope." (5.8.20-22), but the problem is not so much the witches' words as it is Macbeth's uncritical supernatural... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - 1997 - 154 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Charles Franceschina - 1996 - 480 pagine
...appreciation of the play: "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 lo our hope."— .Macbeth. and -- "Is it not written. that Whoe'er shall worship these dark Powers... | |
 | Y. S. Brenner - 508 pagine
...end of the play, when Macbeth comes to realize that predictions 'palter with us in a double sense. That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope!' endowed, or still endowed to day. But I also showed that competition, the mechanism which accounted... | |
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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. 
