 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...prayer Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder! That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown,...May one be pardon'd, and retain the offence ? In the ".prrupted currents of this world, Offence^ gilded hand may shove by justice* And oft 'tis seen, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...Can serve my turn ? Forgive me my foul murder ! — That cannot be ; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown,...out the law : But 'tis not so above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardou'd and retain the offence ? In the corrupted currents...out the law : But 'tis not so above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd, and retain the ofieiice ? one consent of love,< (3) In a Jakes. (>l) With one...; who have thought On, special dignities, which va shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...cannot be ; since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder, — My crown, my own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd, and...out the law ; but 'tis not so above ! There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 796 pages
...be a law that will be without its uncertainties and without seeming injustice. ' ' In the corrupting currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove...wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not BO above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature: and we are ourselves compelled... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 116 pages
...more extreme than that of the eminently sane Isabella or that of the praying Claudius who knew that In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. Lest the audience should be tempted to dismiss what Lear says as mere raving, Shakespeare provides... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen. May one be pardoned and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: 60 There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled Even... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown,...offence? In the corrupted currents of this world, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling,... | |
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...in mock as mark. (Vi319-24) In Hamlet he side-lined the following section of Claudius's soliloquy: In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. (m.iii.57-60) In Cymbeline he side-lined Cloten's words, and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd... | |
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In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law... 
