 | John Smyth Carroll - 1903 - 588 pages
...through having sinned away the very power of true repentance. As the guilty king in Hamlet says: ' What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it, when one can not repent?" Naturally the inscription, 'All hope abandon, ye who enter... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...nature; and we ourselves compelled, Even to the teeth aud forehead of our faults, To give in evidente. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state ! O bosom black as death ! O limed soul, that,... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1905 - 512 pages
...iniquities before Thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of Thy countenance." Act III. iii. 64— " What then ? what rests ? Try what Repentance can. What can it not ? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? Oh wretched state ! O bosom, blacke as death ! Oh limed... | |
 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - 1908 - 410 pages
...Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy ? .... What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet, what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state, — O bosom black as death." The play... | |
 | 1917 - 346 pages
...earlier words of Faustus: "Whither should I fly? If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell." So in Hamlet What then? what rests? Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? Phillips, in his Life of Milton, says that the opening lines... | |
 | 1917 - 692 pages
...words of Faustus: "Whither should I fly? If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell." * So in Hamlet What then? what rests? Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? Phillips, in his Life of Milton, says that the opening lines... | |
 | Simon Augustine Blackmore - 1917 - 530 pages
...hope, and invoking the aid of the ministering spirits of Heaven, he kneels to God in suppliant prayer. "What then? what rests? Try what repentance can? what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? 0 wretched state! 0 bosom hlack as death! 0 limed soul, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George MacDonald - 1924 - 306 pages
...Nature, and we our selucs compell'd Eucn to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To giuc in euidence. What then? What rests? Try what Repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? 4 Oh wretched state ! Oh bosomc, blackc as death ! Oh limed... | |
 | 1964 - 158 pages
...; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.] 5 What then ? what rests ? * Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it when one can not repent ? 0 wretched state IO bosom black as death! О limed soul,... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 pages
...In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that,... | |
| |
Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well. 
