 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. Pray can I (Ill, iii) 35 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...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 - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...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 - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
