 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 148 Seiten
...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 - 138 Seiten
...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 - 971 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Howard Mills - 1993 - 247 Seiten
...can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as wil1. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent , 40 And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? And what's... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 359 Seiten
...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 - 268 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 865 Seiten
...After Polonius leaves to hide in Gertrude's room, Claudius is left alone to relive his monumental sin: What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? (Ill, iii, 43-46) That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murther... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 280 Seiten
...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 - 98 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... | |
 | August J. Nigro - 2000 - 194 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... | |
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