| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...can I not, • ,j 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 negleft. What if this cursed hand 650 Were thicker than itself with brother's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...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...serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force,— To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...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...serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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... | |
| James Burgh - 1804 - 308 pages
...cannot; Though sore my need of what the guilty pray for; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...And both neglect.— -* What, if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns > To... | |
| James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...Hardnefeof Though sore my need of what the guilty pray for; heaftMy stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause, where I shall first_ £<?£•/«, v * Glimpfo And both neglect. — *What, if this cursed hand ^ofh°PeWhere thicker... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...inclined to it, yet his intention was defeated by his guilt, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force,— To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...inclined to it, yet bis intention was defeated by his guilt. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...serves mercy. But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,... | |
| E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...blood " Clean from my hands ?" A thought resembling this, but with advantage, occurs in Hamlet— " What if this cursed hand " Were thicker than itself...in the sweet heavens " To wash it white as snow." 120. " Your constancy hath left you unattended." Hath forsaken you, left you by yourself. " Show us... | |
| E H. Seymour - 1805 - 456 pages
...would rather die than not drink, yet he would fain drink for all that, too." LORD CHEDWORTH. 228. " What if this cursed hand " Were thicker than itself...not rain enough in the sweet heavens, " To wash it while as snow .*"" A similar thought occurs in Macbeth : " Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this... | |
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