 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. Pray can I (Ill, iii) 35 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 pàgines
...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 will: My stronger...thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there no rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pàgines
...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...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 twofold force, To be forestalled... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pàgines
...he often holds it up, or pushes it far away from him, as he dares to try for a pardon, make a deal: What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? He challenges heaven, or pleads to it, hinting that heaven itself is responsible for misdeeds. He sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 pàgines
...it smells to heaven; It hiith tin- primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger...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 pàgines
...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...sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? (43-47) How can he pray for forgiveness and still cling... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 308 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Natalio Fernández Marcos - 1993 - 1008 pàgines
...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 will: My stronger...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 twofold force, — To be... | |
 | August J. Nigro - 2000 - 204 pàgines
...avenging his father and that of redeeming his mother, Claudius finds himself paralyzed by conscience: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect . . . O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engag'd! (3.3.41-43, 69-69) Like Hamlet, Claudius... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pàgines
...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 will: My stronger...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 force, — To be... | |
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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... 
