 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 388 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 in...twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall 30 Or pardoned being down ? Then I'll look up. My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. s in singing not to (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 - Drama - 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... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...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...serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? (43-47) How can he pray for forgiveness and still cling to the rewards of crime: My crown, mine own... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 380 pages
...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...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 - Religion - 1996 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...sig. D4r); 'All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain' (Dent w8s, citing Ado 4.i.i40f.); 'What if this cursed hand / Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens / To wash it white as snow' (Ham. 3.3.43-6, Q2 and F, cited by Slater, p. 5). 63 Neptune Classical god of the seas. 65 multitudinous... | |
 | Francis Fergusson - History - 276 pages
...Who does it then? His madness. CLAUD|US: My stronger guilt defeats my strong act 3 intent: scene 3 And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...pause where I shall first begin. And both neglect. act 4 Not that I think you did not love your scene 7 father. But that I know love is begun by time.... | |
 | Jon Elster - Philosophy - 1999 - 468 pages
...Johnson, being a Shakespeare scholar, may have had in mind the King's remark in Hamlet (3.3): "[Llikeaman to double business bound I stand in pause where I shall first begin, and both neglect." 142. Boswell, The Life of Dr. Johnson, ,€tat. 61. 143. For discussions of the infinite-regress problem... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
..."revenge" as...' • What chiefly stands in the way of forgiveness and then repentance for Claudius? And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's... | |
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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... 
