 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...  Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction ... - Side 141av Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1890Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1870 - 792 sider
...gain our peace, have sent to peace." " And all our yesterdays Have lighted fools to dusty death." " What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood." " Oh wretched state, Oh bosom black as death," &c., &c. Anyone who reads the tragedies of " Macbeth,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 sider
...to heaven j It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder ! — Pray can I not, • ,j Though inclination be as sharp as will ; My stronger...stand in pause where I' shall first begin, And both negleft. What if this cursed hand 650 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ? Is there not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 sider
...offence is rank, it smells to heaven ; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as...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 prayer, but this two-fold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 sider
...bed, And tell you what I know. King. • Thanks, dear my lord. [Exit Polonius. A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as...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 prayer, but this two-fold... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...eldest curse 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...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... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 308 sider
...it.— A brother' s murder ! Pray, alas ! I cannot; Though sore my need of what the guilty pray for; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like...And both neglect.— -* What, if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns > To... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 sider
...murder ! Pray, alas ! I cannot; Hardnefeof Though sore my need of what the guilty pray for; heaftMy stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like...double business bound, I stand in pause, where I shall first_ £<?£•/«, v * Glimpfo And both neglect. — *What, if this cursed hand ^ofh°PeWhere thicker... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 sider
...not only willing to pray, but strongly inclined to it, yet bis intention was defeated by his guilt. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like...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 prayer, but this two-fold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 sider
...not only willing to pray, but strongly inclined to it, yet his intention was defeated by his guilt, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And,...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 prayer, but this two-fold... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 454 sider
...would rather die than not drink, yet he would fain drink for all that, too. " LORD CHEDWORTH. 228. " What if this cursed hand " Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens, " To wash it white as snow ?" A similar thought occurs in Macbeth : " Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood " Clean from... | |
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