 | Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - Education - 1995 - 512 pages
...the prima facie case while paying lip service to Strauder the Court today allies itself with those "that keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope." . . . Were it necessary to make an absolute choice between the right of a defendant to have a jury... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - History - 1995 - 544 pages
...5.8.19-22: "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep the word of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope." unity may be, diversity—that is to say, investigation and discussion—is better, so long as we have... | |
 | Garry Wills - Drama - 1995 - 238 pages
...they use words that are true at some level but not in the way that their victim could understand. They "keep the word of promise to our ear / And break it to our hope" (5.8.21-22). It is what Banquo had predicted on the heath (1.3.123-26): And oftentimes, to win us to... | |
 | Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg - Self-Help - 1996 - 212 pages
...Broken Promises "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. " —SHAKESPEARE "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." —FRANCOIS,... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...that he was not of woman born, Macbeth realizes that "these juggling fiends" use a double sense and "keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope" (5.8.19-22). At this point, he fights on merely to save a bit of dignity, to avoid being ridiculed.... | |
 | Brian Richardson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 236 pages
...hand-carried by Malcolm's invading forces. The hags do seem to quibble "with us in a double sense,/ That keep the word of promise to our ear/ And break it to our hope." (5.8.20-22), but the problem is not so much the witches' words as it is Macbeth's uncritical supernatural... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - Social Science - 1997 - 154 pages
...Freedom to them has been like one of "those juggling fiends That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope." In this connection, some explanation of the former political solidarity of those Negroes who were voters... | |
 | John Charles Franceschina - Fiction - 1996 - 480 pages
...appreciation of the play: "Be these juggling fiends no more believed. That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear. And break it lo our hope."— .Macbeth. and -- "Is it not written. that Whoe'er shall worship these dark Powers... | |
 | Y. S. Brenner - Business & Economics - 508 pages
...end of the play, when Macbeth comes to realize that predictions 'palter with us in a double sense. That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope!' endowed, or still endowed to day. But I also showed that competition, the mechanism which accounted... | |
 | Melvin J. Lasky - Social Science - 506 pages
...can't even sing!" And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear. And break it to our hope. (Macbeth, V.vii.48) In London, as I recall, this kind of fiendish thing is more politely received.... | |
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That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. 
