 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...A brother's murder!—Pray I cannot, Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill, 5 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent: And like a man to double...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 420 pages
...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 ? Whereunto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ! And what's in prayer, but this two-fold... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 250 pages
...nothing but laugh at the uneasiness of others. Never mind the dirty tablecloth, Fanny—Let it lie— ' Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow ?" The rain now commenced what Miss Brown termed "a regular pepper," and the ladies hastily scudded... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 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 - Color - 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... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - Man (Theology) - 1836 - 250 pages
...for delineation of character — y, /cannot. Tho' inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.' ' But O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder! That cannot be; since I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...brother's murder ! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will ; 2 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...brother's murder ! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will ; * My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double...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... | |
 | Henry Bathurst - 1837 - 372 pages
...in the language of poetry alone, — and even he says of his hand stained with the foulest murder, " Is there not rain enough in the sweet Heavens to wash it white as snow?" Are not the mild refrigerant drops of grace from God sufficient to cool the hell-fire of the hottest... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...brother's murder! — Pray I cannot, Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill, 5 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent: And like a man to double...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... | |
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Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger 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 cursed hand Were thicker than itself... 
