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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... "
Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare - Page 91
by William Shakespeare - 1820 - 466 pages
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...Richard, counsel you. i^iiimiion oe as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...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...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...Pray I cannot ; Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...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...
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Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by ...

Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...and that one very purpose for which prayer is appointed, is to obtain that mercy for past guilt : — What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence 1 And what 's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,...
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Hamlet

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...in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up. 50 My fault is past; but O, what form...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

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,...
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The Masks of Hamlet

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...
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Shakespeare's World of Death: The Early Tragedies

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...
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The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House

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...
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Hamlet

Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to double business bound And both neglect. What if tins cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's...in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up. He does, but more in hope than anything...
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The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the History of Christianity

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...
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