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| English periodicals - 1870 - 792 pages
...gain our peace, have sent to peace." " And all our yesterdays Have lighted fools to dusty death." " What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood." " Oh wretched state, Oh bosom black as death," &c., &c. Anyone who reads the tragedies of " Macbeth,"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...bound, I 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...enough in the sweet heavens, To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And And what's in prayer, but this... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...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...enough in the sweet 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...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...enough in the sweet 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... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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...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... | |
| James Burgh - Elocution - 1804 - 308 pages
...stand in pause, where I shall first begin, 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 wash it white as snow ; Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence f... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...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...enough in the sweet 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...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...enough in the sweet 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... | |
| 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... | |
| E H. Seymour - 1805 - 456 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...not rain enough in the sweet heavens, " To wash it while as snow .*"" A similar thought occurs in Macbeth : " Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this... | |
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