 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 188 pages
...may shove by justice ; And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not BO above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies...then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death !... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...this two-fold force, — To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned, being down ? Then I 'll look up ; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer...then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : What can it not ? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death !... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1861 - 914 pages
...two-fold force, — To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd, being down ? Then I'll lonk ׀ 0 w z ҁ N "< 1861 Richard Griffin"# Bowdler Tho P@0 eompell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faulte, To give in evidence. What then Ï what rests... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1861 - 524 pages
...which I did the murther, My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen. May one be pardon'd, and retain th' offence ? In the corrupted currents of this world,...then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it, when one can not repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death... | |
 | 1918 - 692 pages
...apprehension how like a God ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! — (II. ii.) King : And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out...teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. — (III. iii.)' Hamlet's four lines to Ophelia are merely Bruno in compressed form : Doubt thou the... | |
 | Edgar Erastus Clark - 1904 - 1000 pages
...and retain th' offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove-by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself...What then? What rests? Try what repentance can? What can it not? Yet what can it when one can not repent? О wretched state! О bosom black as death! О... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 46 pages
...compulsory disclosure is not new. Even Shakespeare had his doubts. In Hamlet the King soliloquizes: "In the corrupted currents •of this world offence's...action lies in his true nature, and, we ourselves are compelled, •even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, to give in evidence." But if we pause... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - 2009 - 410 pages
...parallelism is so startling that the familiar passage takes on a fresh meaning in its new context: In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one can not repent? Shakespeare finds the right word. Shuffling! VIII... | |
 | 1964 - 158 pages
...the murder, My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.4 [May one be pardon'd and retain the offence r] In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.] 5 What then ? what rests ? * Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it when one can... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 pages
...and my queen. May one be pardon'd, and retain the offence? In the corrupted currents of this world, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out...Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it, when one... | |
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I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?' That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd... 
