 A brother's murder! 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...  The Patrician - Page 485edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Erastus Clark - Railroad conductors - 1904 - 1000 pages
...Tunnel Ten." О, ту offence is rank, it smells to Heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not: Though inclination...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1903 - 300 pages
...offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murther 1 Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as...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... | |
 | Denmark - 1964 - 158 pages
...I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, And tell you what I know. KING. Thanks, dear my lord. [Exi¿ P O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven ; It hath...intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.] 2 What if this cursed hand Were thicker... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the mold of form, Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down! (Ill, i) NAWM-1 34 O, my offense 94 Thai lend a tyrannous and a damned light To their lord's murder. Roasted in wrath and fire, And th I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...Scene III KING. Oh! my offence is rank, it smells to Heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder! Pray can I not, Though inclination...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... | |
 | Johan Callens - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 276 pages
...for instance, Claudius wishes to atone for the murder of his brother through prayer but hesitates: "My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,/ And,...to double business bound./ 1 stand in pause where 1 shall first begin,/ And both neglect" (3.3.40,43). 1n communicative terms, his emotions reach an... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 380 pages
...of the scene, he took up the words: — " 0 my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hiith tin- primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder! —...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... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder. Pray can I not. Though inclination he as sharp as will, My stronger 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 blood, Is there... | |
 | Natalio Fernández Marcos - Religion - 1993 - 1008 pages
...brother's murder": O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, — A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination...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... | |
 | August J. Nigro - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 204 pages
...avenging his father and that of redeeming his mother, Claudius finds himself paralyzed by conscience: 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 . . . O limed soul, that struggling to... | |
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