...to gain our place, have sent to peace, Then 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 his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch...

...seed of Banquo kings." In the agitation of his thoughts, he envies those whom he has sent !o peace. " Duncan is in his grave ; after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." It is true, he becomes more callous as he plunges deeper in guilt, " direness is thus made familiar...

...to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy .1 Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch...

...five days before his death, had, on board the River Queen, read from Macbeth to a circle of guests: "Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." It was his new grave, however, that held fitful fever for Abraham Lincoln. Neither the East, which...

...wife, hath bid this world goodnight. (Richard ///,IV,3,38 -39) über das lapidar-bedeutungsschwangere "Duncan is in his grave, after life's fitful fever he sleeps well" (IQ, 2,24- 25) Macbeths bis hin zur poetischen Transformation in Prosperos berühmtem "our little life...

...author, Shakespeare. He loved Macbeth above all the other plays and from it spoke the pensive lines: Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch...

...nightly: better be with the dead . . . 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 his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch...

...who seems best to understand, and most to sympathize with, the old king should have the last word: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch...

...gash / Is added to her wounds" (3.3.40-41). Duncan, meanwhile, is beyond the reach of Macbeth's sword: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch...

...moved, and moving, with the verses in "Macbeth" in which Macbeth speaks of Duncan's assassination: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch...