 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...  Shakespeare's Hamlet - Pagina 138door William Shakespeare - 1903 - 274 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pagina’s
...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...blood ? Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens, To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pagina’s
...Polonius. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse90 upon't — A brother's murder. Pray can I not: Though inclination...— Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. s in singing not to To wash it white as snow? (Ill, iii) 35 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pagina’s
...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...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? (43-47) How can... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 pagina’s
...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...blood, Is there not 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,... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pagina’s
...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...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 308 pagina’s
...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...blood, / Is there not rain 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... | |
 | Francis Fergusson - 276 pagina’s
...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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