 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 Seiten
...Richard, counsel you. i^iiimiion oe as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mer But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 Seiten
...Pray I cannot ; Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 Seiten
...and that one very purpose for which prayer is appointed, is to obtain that mercy for past guilt : — What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence 1 And what 's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 Seiten
...Pray can I not: Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, 40 And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up. 50 My fault is past; but O, what form... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. s in singing not to (Ill, iii) 35 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 Seiten
...only a first episode, as he regroups. He says his guilt defeats his will, in a Hamlet-like metaphor: And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. He speaks like Hamlet, trying to distance his own situation in a generalization, drawn in more than... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 Seiten
...guilty of the "primal eldest curse" of Cain — "A brother's murder" — but "Pray can I not" (36-38). What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? (43-47) How can he pray for forgiveness and still cling to the rewards of crime: My crown, mine own... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 Seiten
...Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood? la there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to... | |
 | 1996 - 264 Seiten
...guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to double business bound And both neglect. What if tins cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's...in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up. He does, but more in hope than anything... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 Seiten
...1:15, i8).4 In Hamlet King Claudius vainly prays that his fratricidal sin can be forgiven in heaven: What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?5 Macbeth in similar language, appalled by the sight of blood on his hands, doubts whether 'all... | |
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Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself... 
