 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 páginas
...offence is rank, it smells to heaven ; It hath the primal eldest3 curse upon't — A brother's murder !' Pray I cannot Though inclination be as sharp as 't...neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself4 with brother's blood ; Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it. white as snow... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 páginas
...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...enough in the 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 páginas
...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. What if this...enough in the 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... | |
 | Herbert Mitgang - 1982 - 68 páginas
...defeats my strong intent . . ./ What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's bloody Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens,/ To wash it white as snow?" (He looks up, tearfully.) But why should God forgive me rather than the Confederate leaders? Both parties... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 páginas
...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. What if this...enough in the 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. And like a man to double business bound I stand in pause where T; NoP The Wound-Dresser Հ T "F 1992 Columbi (Ill, iii) 35 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 páginas
...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...enough in the 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... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 páginas
...1:15, i8).4 In Hamlet King Claudius vainly prays that his fratricidal sin can be forgiven in heaven: What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?5 Macbeth in similar language, appalled by the sight of blood on his hands, doubts whether 'all... | |
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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 with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? 
