 | H. O. Apthorp - 1858 - 312 psl.
...o'erleap, 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." In all this most effective passage, only two words which are not monosyllables; and only one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 psl.
...o'er-leap, 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. [Exit. Dun. True, worthy Banquo : he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed ; It... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 psl.
...o'er-Ieap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your tires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : , rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixurc see ! [Exit. KING. True, worthy Banquo, — he is full so valiant ; And in his commendations I am fed,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 psl.
...in my 50 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. Duncan True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, 55 And in his commendations I am fed: It is... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 psl.
...is precisely Macbeth's project: 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. (I.iv.50-53) He is asking for psychic disunity, for an "inner disintegration in the heart of being,"... | |
 | William Empson - 1986 - 262 psl.
...out a number of them which seem to me to sum up the thought of the play particularly vividly, such as The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. and even "Hover through the fog and filthy air" is called a "vacuous tag-line", though it establishes... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1995 - 238 psl.
...to be blotted out (1.4.50-53). 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. Macbeth is calling for the kind of night witches exploit — when stars are "blinded" (Marston),... | |
 | Ewald Standop - 1995 - 172 psl.
...des Tages. Daher sagt Macbeth: 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. (I.4.50ff.) Hier haben wir eine zweifache Stufe, die Überbietung des einen Bildes durch das andere:... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 psl.
...invokes darkness as a cover not only to hide his intentions from others, but to hide them from himself: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.52-53) There is a deep ambivalence here. He wants to become king, and he is ready to kill... | |
 | British Academy - 2000 - 590 psl.
...marks or indicates. Consider these examples. (i) Macbeth: 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. (l.4. 5l-3) (ii) Lady Macbeth: Thou'dst have. great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do'... | |
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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. 
