 | Natalio Fernández Marcos - 1993 - 1008 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1980 - 442 Seiten
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 | August J. Nigro - 2000 - 204 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 Seiten
...surface when Claudius, tortured by guilt, struggles to pray : Cleomencs Clerk, Lawyer's 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 forestalled... | |
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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... 
