 | Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 230 pages
...trying for a second, demonstrating that such a person will not voluntarily submit to accountability: In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And often 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys the law. There is no law in Denmark to apprehend Claudius.... | |
 | George Wilkes - 2005 - 484 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...did the murder; My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen; May one be pardoned and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above, 60 There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled Even... | |
 | Susan Rowland - 2005 - 244 pages
...complete divorce between divine comfort and human politics: May one be pardoned, and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's...prize itself Buys out the law; but tis not so above, (III, iii, 56-60) Claudius as king is cut off from unconscious healing by his refusal to atone. By... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...more extreme than that of the eminently sane Isabella or that of the praying Claudius18 who knew that In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's...'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. King Lear 1 2s Lest the audience should be tempted to dismiss what Lear says as mere raving, Shakespeare... | |
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In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law... 
