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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... "
The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ... - Page 102
by William Shakespeare - 1827 - 345 pages
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Hamlet. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...to heaven j It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder ! — Pray can I not, • ,j Though inclination be as sharp as will ; My stronger...stand in pause where I' shall first begin, And both negleft. What if this cursed hand 650 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ? Is there not...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 444 pages
...rank, it smells to heaven ; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will ; My stronger...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 force,— To...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...you what I know. King. • Thanks, dear my lord. [Exit Polonius. A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger...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 force, — To...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...eldest curse upon't ; A brother's murder — Pray I cannot : Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill , My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent { And like...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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The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for ...

James Burgh - Elocution - 1804 - 308 pages
...it.— A brother' s murder ! Pray, alas ! I cannot; Though sore my need of what the guilty pray for; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like...And both neglect.— -* What, if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns > To...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...not only willing to pray, but strongly inclined to it, yet bis intention was defeated by his guilt. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like...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 force, — To...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...not only willing to pray, but strongly inclined to it, yet his intention was defeated by his guilt, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And,...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 force,— To...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 2

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 454 pages
...would rather die than not drink, yet he would fain drink for all that, too. " LORD CHEDWORTH. 228. " What if this cursed hand " Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens, " To wash it white as snow ?" A similar thought occurs in Macbeth : " Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood " Clean from...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will 6°; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And,...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 force, — To...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...as will '; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 tcu1 high, and swift cnrantos ; haying, our grace...in our heels, And that we are most lofty runaways. mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer, but this twofold force, — To...
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