 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 页
...what can it, when one can not repent ? Oh wretched state ! Oh bosom, black as death ! Oh limed sdul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engaged ! Help,...sinews of the new-born babe ; — All may be well ! Advice to a Son going to Travel. GIVE thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 页
...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...Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of stecl, Be soft as sinews of the new-bom babe ! Even the minor characters — the governor of Orestes,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 页
...it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent ? О wretched state! О bosom, black as death! О On Larainas-eve at night shall [Retires and kneels. Enter HAMLET. Ham. Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying ; And now I'll do't:... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 页
...despaire. Is it then merely fanciful to see Claudius on his knees before a statue of the Madonna and Child? Bow stubborn knees, and heart, with strings of steel,...soft as sinews of the new-born babe All may be well. (3.3.70-2) He refers to the new-born babe, not a new-born babe. When Hamlet enters to find Claudius... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - 2010 - 301 页
...more subtle means that theatrical performance can best confer. Claudius ends by decrying his own evil: "O bosom black as death! / O limed soul that struggling to be free / Art more engag'd!," and he proceeds even to command himself to action: "Bow, stubborn knees, and heart, with... | |
 | George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 页
...speech will cut off at a short line before the next speech begins with one of normal length: King. Bow stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel,...soft as sinews of the new-born babe, All may be well. Hamlet. Now might I do it pat, now he is praying. (Hamla. 3.3.70-73) It oftens happens, too, especially... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 页
...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! O limed...stubborn knees; and heart, with strings of steel, 70 Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. [He kneels. All may be well. Enter HAMLET. HAMLET Now might... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 页
...Live eternally in hell. He has risen to an ultimate crisis: Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engag'd! He lives the image of the bird trapped in quicklime — the whole body taut and twisted with... | |
 | E. Geoffrey Walsh, Ewart Geoffrey Walsh - 1992 - 240 页
...being greatest in infancy (mutton is tougher than lamb!) In Hamlet (III. iii. 71-2), Claudius says: Heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. It is likely that in the relaxed limb the resistance to motion of limited extent is determined by cross... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 页
...to pray until the end of his soliloquy when, wavering between hope and despair, he is most moving: Help, angels! Make assay. Bow, stubborn knees, and,...soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well. (69-72) The question for us all is, shall we try to get rid of our committed sin, or shall we admit... | |
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Yet what can it when one can not repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom black as death ! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged ! Help, angels ! make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the... 
