 | Hercules Robinson - 1858 - 278 pàgines
...was a pet, and the race was ended as her interesting young family were carried off by the devourer. " What ! all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop." I bore the " calamity " with more indifference — far more — than if it had been my own pretty,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pàgines
...to wife or little ones, and when the wild burst of agony goes forth from that father's heart — " What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop !" who after that can doubt as to the fate of Macbeth, or as to the hand that will be found to bring... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pàgines
...this deadly grief. Macd. He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say, alii O, hell-kite ! AH? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop? Mai. Dispute it like a man. Macd. I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man. I can not but remember... | |
 | John B. Bremner - 1980 - 424 pàgines
..."savagely slaughter'd" by Macbeth, he cries, "All my pretty ones? / Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? / What, all my pretty chickens and their dam / At one fell swoop?" The hell-kite is Macbeth, who had swooped on his victims, Macduff s little chickens, like a hawk. At... | |
 | Robert W. Uphaus - 1981 - 172 pàgines
...grieves over their loss: He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop? (IV.iii.216-19) And in Act V Macbeth, told of his wife's death, contemplates the unfolding pattern... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 pàgines
...this deadly grief. Macduff He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O, hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? 220 Malcolm Dispute it like a man. Macduff I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot... | |
 | I.F. Goldstein, M. Goldstein - 1984 - 428 pàgines
...a soliloquy expressing his guilt at having murdered his sleeping guest Duncan): Oh, hell-kite, all? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? The images above are drawn, respectively, from gardening (the first two), carpentry, weaving, and the... | |
 | Meena Alexander - 1989 - 240 pàgines
...the house, cried with well acted passion: All my pretty ones? Did you say all? - O hell kite! All? What! All my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop! A pang of tameless grief wrenched every heart, a burst of despair was echoed from every lip. - I had... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pàgines
...and the gruff captain bursts into exclamations of fury and surprise. Macd. . . . O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? Mai. Dispute it like a man. Macd. I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man. . . . O, I could... | |
 | Mary Jacobus - 1995 - 324 pàgines
...And finally, with Macduff's exclamation — All my pretty ones? Did you say all?— O hell kite! All? What! all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop! (p. 204; Macbeth 4.3.216-19) — "a burst of despair was echoed from every lip." As Verney puts it,... | |
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He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? 
