Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Nature seems dead.

Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Thou sure and firm-set earth,

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear

Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.

Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The bell invites me.

Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1.