 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1922 - 498 pages
...Gefiihlsaussatz unsere Herzen zu iiberkrusten wissen ' (p. 128). Lamb writes: 'These (Middleton's Witches) to whom man or woman plotting some dire mischief might resort for occasional consultation.. ..These Witches can hurt the body.... Except Hecate, they (Shakespeare's Weird Sisters) have no names,... | |
 | Henry Kelsey White - 1907 - 104 pages
...cannot, however, better clinch the comparison than in Charles Lamb's wellknown words : " Shakespeare's witches are distinguished from the witches of Middleton...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 272 pages
...of Middleton) which is supposed to have preceded it. this coincidence will not detract much from the originality of Shakspeare. His Witches are distinguished...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 pages
...of Middleton) which is supposed to have preceded it, this coincidence will not detract much from the originality of Shakspeare. His Witches are distinguished...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's,... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Jacob Zeitlin - 1913 - 532 pages
...preceded it, this coincidence will not detract much from the originality of Shakspeare. HisWitches arc distinguished from the Witches of Middleton by essential...for occasional consultation. ' Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 406 pages
...that Shakespeare was indebted for the idea of his " weird sisters " to Middleton's tragedy, The Witch. His witches are distinguished from the witches of...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth'a... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 pages
...supposed to have preceded it, this coincidence will not detract much from the originality of Shakespeare. His witches are distinguished from the witches of...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's,... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1922 - 484 pages
...Gefühlsaussatz unsere Herzen zu überkrusten wissen ' (p. 128). Lamb writes: 'These (Middleton's Witches) to whom man or woman plotting some dire mischief might resort for occasional consultation. ...These Witches can hurt the body Except Hecate, they (Shakespeare's Weird Sisters) have no names,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 pages
...in this play, which is supposed to have preceded it, this coincidence will not detract much from the originality of Shakspeare. His witches are distinguished...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1927 - 242 pages
...Charles Lamb, in a passage which quotation can never stale : [Shakespeare's] witches, [he tells us], are distinguished from the witches of Middleton by...for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood, and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first met with Macbeth's,... | |
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His witches are distinguished from the witches of Middleton by essential differences. These are creatures to whom man or woman, plotting some dire mischief, might resort for occasional consultation. 
