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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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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...neglect. 2. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood? Is there not lain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow...Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offense ? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or...
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The Patrician, Volume 4

John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pages
...as will ; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both...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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School Reader: 4th book

Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...'t, A brother's murder ! — Pray I can 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. 2. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ? [s there not rain enough...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 stand in pause where 1 , from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar :...on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, V ml, And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardori'd,...
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The Renfrewshire Magazine

1847 - 522 pages
...I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will : My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; Anil, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect," &c. range of dramatic villains. It is this: they are more desperate; but when remorse does come to...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...upon't — A brother's murder ! Pray I cannot ; Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to...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...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...then, to be more calm; let patien( Richard, counsel you. i^iiimiion oe as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to...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...
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The Indicator: A Literary Periodical Conducted by Students of ..., Volumes 1-3

1848 - 936 pages
...is rank, it smells to heaven ! 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. O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! O limed soul ! that struggling to be free, Art more engaged...
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Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by ...

Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...once were mighty for evil : — Pray can I not, Thoug-h inclination be as sharp as will ; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And like a man to...bound, I stand in pause where I shall first beg-in, in which last lines we may further observe the metaphysical accuracy not only of the distinction between...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 pages
...defeats rny strong intent: And like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall fii st begin, And both neglect. (°) What if this cursed...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, 15 Or pardon'd...
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