 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pages
...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; 10 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, To... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...a measure', and weighed the mountains in scales', and the hills in a balance'? What if this guilty hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood'?...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow'? Has God', thou fool', worked solely for thy good'? Thy joy', thy pastime', thy attire', thy food'?... | |
 | George Field - 1835 - 310 pages
...beautie shine th as the morning clear With silver dew upon the roses pearling. SPENSER'S COL. CLO. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow ? HAMLET, Act in. Sc. 3. To thee, sweet smiling maid, I bring The beauteous progeny of spring; In every... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...enough in the fwcet heavens To wafh it white as fnow ? whereto fervcs mercy, But to confront tbc vifage of offence ? And what's in prayer, but this twofold force, To be foreftalled e're we come to fall, Or pardon 'd being down > then 111 look up : My fault ispaft : but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...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...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 pages
...And like a man to double business bound I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. 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 pages
...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... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 pages
...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 no rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 pages
...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? la there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to... | |
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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? 
