 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 148 psl.
...prince of Cumberland ! — That is a step, [Aside. On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, 320 For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let...[Exit. Dun. True, worthy Banquo ; he is full so valiant ; 325 And in his commendations I am fed ; It is a banquet to me. Let's after him, Whose care is gone... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Stewart - 1853 - 348 psl.
...laying up for him a heavy account of future insult and wrong. CHAPTER XIII. " Stars, hide your fire Let not light see my black and deep desires, The eye...be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." MACBETR. THE bitter winds of the winter night careered wildly over the heath, and round the solitary... | |
 | Norman Rabkin - 1981 - 176 psl.
...actual presence of the gracious King, does Macbeth speak more honestly and explicitly with himself. Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.50-53) But why now? What has changed? In this ceremonial scene, more than anywhere else, Macbeth... | |
 | Norman Rabkin - 1981 - 176 psl.
...actual presence of the gracious King, does Macbeth speak more honestly and explicitly with himself. Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Tragic Meanings: The Redactor as Critic Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.50-53)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 psl.
...Prince of Cumberland! That's an obstacle that will trip me up unless I leap over it. It lies in my 50 For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Duncan True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, 55 And in his commendations I am fed: It is a banquet... | |
 | James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 psl.
...heroism of self-interest is marked by an aside spoken in the equivocal phrases of his first soliloquy: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.50-53) Lady Macbeth, when she appears in the scene immediately following, defines her husband's... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 psl.
...and it is this disintegration which bad faith wishes to be. 16 This is precisely Macbeth's project: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.50-53) He is asking for psychic disunity, for an "inner disintegration in the heart of being,"... | |
 | William Empson - 1986 - 262 psl.
..."has moved appreciably nearer to it". I should have thought he clearly plans to do it: the words are: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. The chief thought here, surely, as in all these habitual metaphors of darkness, is that Macbeth wants... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - 1992 - 68 psl.
...wife with your approach; So humbly take my leave. King Duncan. My worthy Cawdor! Macbeth (To himself). Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (He leaves for Inverness) King Duncan. Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 268 psl.
...heart doth know? or it might be a rhyming couplet or two to emphasize a decision or a sense of purpose: 'Stars hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be, Which the eye fears when it is done to see.' The witches speak mainly in couplets, but, to show that diey are not human, they use a different rhythm... | |
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For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. 
