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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... "
Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ... - Page 325
by William Scott - 1819 - 360 pages
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Scribes and Translators: Septuagint and Old Latin in the Books of Kings ...

Natalio Fernández Marcos - 1993 - 1008 pages
...upon't, — A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to...serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force, — To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd...
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Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice

Susan Hockey - 2000 - 234 pages
...texts, 'words' do not only contain letters. Consider the following lines from Hamlet Act 3, Scene 3: Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is...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 being...
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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 356 pages
..."revenge" as...' • What chiefly stands in the way of forgiveness and then repentance for Claudius? And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...pray : Cleomencs Clerk, Lawyer's Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will : My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to...serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's in prayer but this twofold force. To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned being...
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The Klingon Hamlet

Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...upon't, — A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to...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...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 pages
...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...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? 47 And what's...
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy

George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...Heaven' (ni. ni. 36): . . . What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with hrother's hlood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash...serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? He fears that his prayer is worthless. He is still trammelled hy the enjoyment of the fruits of his...
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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul

Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...curse itself, Claudius continues: Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. (3.3.38-43) Claudius's curse is his inability to pray. Though he fervently wishes to pray, his stronger...
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Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other Inflections

George Thaddeus Wright - 2001 - 348 pages
...two families behave unaccountably and exhibit signs of disturbance. Claudius's guilt paralyzes him: And like a man to double business bound, I stand in...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. 19 (3.3.41-43) Gertrude's situation is equally appalling: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,...
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Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...it pat, now he is praying. And now I'll do't. - And so he goes to heaven, The Tragedie of Hamlet 139 I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect; what if this cursed hand Were thicker then it selfe with Brothers blood, Is there not Raine enough in the sweet Heauens To wash it white...
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