 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...A brother's murder .' — Pray I cannot, 35 Though inclination be as sharp as 't will ; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to...begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand 5 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ! Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 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...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...curse upon 't, A brother's murder. Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger 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 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...guilty of the "primal eldest curse" of Cain — "A brother's murder" — but "Pray can I not" (36-38). What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? (43-47) How can he pray for forgiveness and still cling to the rewards of crime: My crown, mine own... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 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...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... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Fergusson - 276 pages
...Who does it then? His madness. CLAUD|US: My stronger guilt defeats my strong act 3 intent: scene 3 And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...pause where I shall first begin. And both neglect. act 4 Not that I think you did not love your scene 7 father. But that I know love is begun by time.... | |
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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... 
