 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 ページ
...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...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 of prayer Can serve my... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 ページ
...stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. And like a man to double business bound I stand in pause where I 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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 ページ
...begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood? la there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash...force — To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned, being down ? Then I '11 look up; My fault is past. But O what form of prayer Can serve my... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1996 - 264 ページ
...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...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 else. CLAUDIUS (continuing)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 ページ
...hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But...twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up. so My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 ページ
...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 - 1997 - 308 ページ
...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... | |
 | Natalio Fernández Marcos - 1993 - 1008 ページ
...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...pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder! — That cannot be; since... | |
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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? 
