| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 220 sayfa
...weird sisters. Which agrees well with Holinshed in the passage which the Poet no doubt had in his eye: "The common opinion was, that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie... | |
| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 200 sayfa
...witches, norns, fates or hallucinations ? Holinshed expressed the historic doubts : But afterwards the common opinion was, that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1967 - 212 sayfa
...derived from the 'three women in strange and wild apparel . . . either the Weird Sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destiny or else some nymphs or fairies' who accost Macbeth and Banquo in Holinshed's Chronicles of Scotland. In Gwinn's entertainment they... | |
| Geoffrey Bullough - 1975 - 584 sayfa
...Scotland; and Mackbeth againe would call him in sport likewise, the father of manie kings.5 But afterwards the common opinion was, that these women were either the weird sisters,* that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie... | |
| Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - 1977 - 116 sayfa
...Sisters witches, noms, fates or hallucinations ? Holinshed expressed the historic doubts : But afterwards the common opinion was, that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or femes, indued with knowledge of prophesie... | |
| Richard W. Barber - 1999 - 622 sayfa
...king of Scotland; and Macbeth, again in sport, would call him the father of many kings. But afterwards the common opinion was that these women were either the weird sisters, that is to say the goddesses of destiny, or else some nymphs or fairies imbued with knowledge of prophecy by... | |
| John O'Connor - 2001 - 112 sayfa
...obtuse dull-witted the old word for Fate 'Weird' comes from an Old English word wyrd meaning 'fate'. either the weird sisters, that is (as you would say)...goddesses of destiny, or else some nymphs or fairies, imbued with knowledge of prophecy.' COOKE Fate and destiny? So they're more than just fortune-tellers,... | |
| Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 sayfa
...determination that made witches dangerous in the eyes of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Holinshed wrote that "the common opinion was, that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, imbued with knowledge of prophesie... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2004 - 164 sayfa
...order of continual descent.' Herewith the aforesaid women vanished immediately out of their sight . . . The common opinion was that these women were either the weird sisters ... or else some nymphs or fairies . . . Shortly after, the Thane of Cawdor being condemned at Forres... | |
| Alexander Leggatt - 2006 - 220 sayfa
...Scotland; and Mackbeth againe would call him in sport likewise, the father of manie kings. But afterwards the common opinion was, that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie... | |
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