 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pagina’s
...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 double business bound, 1 stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pagina’s
...A brother's murder ! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will : My stronger guilt 㕒 1 stand in pause where 1 shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...upon 't, A brother's murder. Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt her birds But that he knows in singing not to What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood. Is there not rain enough in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pagina’s
...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...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood — Is there not rain enough... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Johan Callens - 1993 - 276 pagina’s
...Claudius wishes to atone for the murder of his brother through prayer but hesitates: "My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,/ And, like a man to double business bound./ 1 stand in pause where 1 shall first begin,/ And both neglect" (3.3.40,43). 1n communicative terms,... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 pagina’s
...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 with brother's blood? la there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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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... 
