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" And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. "
Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections ... - Page 146
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1790 - 752 pages
...that before us, the poet had perhaps the iacred writings in his thoughts : " And now art thou curfed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." Gen. iv. «. This laft obfervation has been made by an anonymous writer. Again, in K. Richard II. " Reft thy...
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King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 618 pages
...that before us, the poet had perhaps the facred writings in his thoughts : " And now art thou cnrfed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive...thy brother's blood from thy hand." Gen. iv. 2. This laft obfervation has been made by an anonymous writer. Again, in K. Richard II : " Reft thy unreft...
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An abridgment of Scripture history, consisting of lessons selected from the ...

Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth which hath...mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength : a fugitive and...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...hath drunk,] In this line, of which there is no trace in the original play, Shakspeare had probably the sacred writings in his thoughts : " And now art...the earth, which hath opened her mouth to -receive /Ay brother's blood." Genesis, iv. 11. MALONE. ACT II. SCENE V. Line 535. Thi.i battle fares like to...
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The sacred mirror; or, Compendious view of Scripture history

Thomas Smith - 1803 - 320 pages
...with a sentence that doomed him to perpetual inquietude, remorse, and infamy. " Now," saith God, " art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened...mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength ; but a fugitive...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...dear blood which it hath fostered." The same kind of imagery is found in King Henry VI, P. III : " Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk:"...on England's lawful earth, " Unlawfully made drunk with innocent blood." The earth may with equal propriety be said to daub her lips with blood, as to...
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The Essence, Spirituality, and Glorious Issue of the Religion of Christ ...

Samuel Barnard - 1806 - 336 pages
...Abel. " What hast thou done '} " the -coice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me "from the ground. And now art thou cursed "from the earth, which hath...mouth to "receive thy brother's blood from thy hand, " When thou tillest the ground, it shall not htnce" forth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 488 pages
...hath drunk,] In this line of which there is no trace in the original play, Shakspeare had probably the sacred writings in his thoughts: " And now art...opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood.." Genesis, iv, 11. The old play (as Theobald has observed) applies this description to the death of'Salisbury,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 674 pages
...hath drunk,] In this line of which there is no trace in the original play, Shakspeare had prohahly the sacred writings in his thoughts: " And now art...earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy hrother's hlood." Genesis, iv, 11. The riId play (as Theohald has ohserved) applies this description...
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Lectures on the four last books of the Pentateuch, Volume 2

Richard Graves - 1807 - 520 pages
...thou done ? The voice of thy bro" ther's blood crieth unto me from the ground, * Genesis, iv. "ground; and now art thou cursed from " the earth, which hath..." to receive thy brother's blood from thy " hand. When thou tillest the ground, it " shall not henceforth yield unto thee her " strength^ a fugitive...
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