 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 psl.
...it is related to him and to no other: Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (III.ii.19-22) Macbeth makes three revealing remarks to the ghost of Banquo that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 psl.
...consequence. Banquo — Macbeth I.iii Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Macbeth — Macbeth IIIM The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 psl.
...suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, 20 Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is... | |
 | Robert Garis - 2004 - 204 psl.
...later on speaks to her with poignant frankness: the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (III. ii. i... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 psl.
...not because he regrets murdering him: Better be with the dead. Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done... | |
 | 2004 - 428 psl.
...45-50) Macbeth ($^* . $-# . 45-50 if) Better be with the dead Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well, (1n, ii, 19-23)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 psl.
...suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 280 psl.
...suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (III. ii.l 6-22)... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - 2006 - 292 psl.
...their hearers With strange invention. 9. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. 10. Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - 2006 - 220 psl.
...chance, I had lived a blessed time. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace. Than on the torture of the mind to lie, In restless ecstasy. [2.2.58, 72; 2.3.91-2; 3.2.19-22] Macbeth thus describes the fate worse than death... | |
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Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. 
