 | Richard A. Posner - Political Science - 2009 - 290 pages
...serve my turn? "Forgive me my foul murder"? That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned and retain th'offense? The answer, of course, is "no." Clinton, too, wants to be pardoned... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder — My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.8 When Henry says 'Though all that I can do is nothing worth, | Since that my penitence comes... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2001 - 420 pages
...serve my turn? "Forgive me my foul murder"? That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder — My crown, mine own...ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain th'offence? (3.3.51-56) One must ask why Claudius will not part with the fruits of his crime so that... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder! That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, — My crown, mine own...ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...my turn ? 'Forgive me my foul murder' ? That cannot be since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. (in.iii) This whole complex, tortuous speech is remarkable for a villain : it is the kind of agonized... | |
 | Michael H. DeArmey, James A. Good - Philosophy - 2001 - 182 pages
...Hence the King feels that he cannot be forgiven as long as he is still possessed "Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen." Verily there is no way out but to make a clean breast of the matter, as we say with true metaphor.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...my turn ? 'Forgive me my foul morder' ? That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen. May one be pardoned and retalo th'offence ? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...murder?' That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder — 55 My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain th'offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen . . . What then? What rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can... | |
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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. But 'tis not... 
