 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 stand in pause where 1 , from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar :...If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...Promise, then, to be more calm; let patien( Richard, counsel you. i^iiimiion oe as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And,...brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mer But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1848 - 936 pages
...when he cries in anguish of spirit : — " Oh ! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven ! Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will ; My stronger...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! O limed soul ! that struggling to be free, Art more engaged... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...of conscience, are become as powerless for good, as they once were mighty for evil : — Pray can I not, Thoug-h inclination be as sharp as will ; My...bound, I stand in pause where I shall first beg-in, in which last lines we may further observe the metaphysical accuracy not only of the distinction between... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...defeats rny strong intent: And like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall fii st begin, And both neglect. (°) What if this cursed...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...curse upon 't! — A brother's murder .' — Pray I cannot, 35 Though inclination be as sharp as 't will ; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;...begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand 5 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ! Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...1 *. 4 Man, delights not me nor woman either, tho' by your smiling you seem to say so.. Ham. a.2s.2 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, and like...pause where I shall first begin, and both neglect! . .King a. 3 *. 3 May one be pardon'd and retain the offence ? &c... King a. 3 s. 3 would have reverted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
