 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.  Bacon and Shakespeare Parallelisms - Seite 381von Edwin Reed - 1902 - 441 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1853 - 228 Seiten
...from whose bourn No traveller returns." Again, in the profound theology of the king of Denmark : — " What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens, To wash it white as snow ? ****** May one be pardoned and retain the offence ? In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's... | |
 | Herbert Mitgang - 1982 - 68 Seiten
...it smells to heaven j It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,/ A brother's murder. Pray can I not,/ Though inclination be as sharp as will:/ My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent . . ./ What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's bloody Is there not rain enough... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. Pray can I not, name the fall. (1. 9) 86 The bird would cease and...as other birds But that he knows 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 Seiten
...smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse90 upon't — A brother's murder. 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 pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.... | |
 | Johan Callens - 1993 - 276 Seiten
...for instance, Claudius wishes to atone for the murder of his brother through prayer but hesitates: "My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,/ And, like a man to double business bound./ 1 stand in pause where 1 shall first begin,/ And both neglect" (3.3.40,43). 1n communicative terms,... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 Seiten
...smells to heaven; It hiith tin- primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1996 - 264 Seiten
...heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder. Pray can I not. Though inclination he as sharp as will, My stronger 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 blood, Is there... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 308 Seiten
...sig. D4r); 'All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain' (Dent w8s, citing Ado 4.i.i40f.); 'What if this cursed hand / Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens / To wash it white as snow' (Ham. 3.3.43-6, Q2 and F, cited by Slater, p. 5). 63 Neptune Classical god of the seas. 65 multitudinous... | |
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