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, herausg. von K. Elze - Seite 60von William Shakespeare - 1857 - 272 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 Seiten
...curse upon't, A brother's murder!—Pray can I not, • ,j Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like...man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I'shall first begin, And both negleft. What if this cursed hand 650 Were thicker than itself with brother's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 Seiten
...eldest curse 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,...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 Seiten
...lord. [Exit Polonius. A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
| E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 Seiten
...blood " Clean from my hands ?" A thought resembling this, but with advantage, occurs in Hamlet— " What if this cursed hand " Were thicker than itself...in the sweet heavens " To wash it white as snow." 120. " Your constancy hath left you unattended." Hath forsaken you, left you by yourself. " Show us... | |
| E H. Seymour - 1805 - 456 Seiten
...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...not rain enough in the sweet heavens, " To wash it while as snow .*"" A similar thought occurs in Macbeth : " Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this... | |
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