 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...  Views in Theology - Page 149by Lyman Beecher - 1836 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 544 pages
...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 guilt...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 in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...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 guilt...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 in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...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 guilt...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 in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 pages
...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 guilt defeats my strong intent, 40 And like a man to double business bound I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.... | |
 | Herbert Mitgang - 1982 - 68 pages
...smells to heaven j 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 guilt defeats my strong intent . . ./ What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's bloody Is there not rain enough... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 pages
...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 guilt...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. Pray can I not, Though e fall. (1. 9) 86 The bird would cease and be as other 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... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse90 upon't — A brother's murder. 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 in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.... | |
 | Johan Callens - 1993 - 276 pages
...for instance, 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,... | |
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