 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 sidor
...queen. May one be pardou'd and retain the offence ? 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 so above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1853 - 578 sidor
...To keep those very many bodies safe." P. 283. When the King, in his soliloquy, says, — " Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself Buys out the law," we need no great persuasion to make us believe that we ought to read, as a manuscript note tells us,... | |
 | Samuel Weller Singer - 1853 - 350 sidor
...the meddling substitution of purse for "prize" in the passage of the king's soliloquy :— Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. what becomes of the " authority" of the correctors here ? followed even Mr. Hunter's reading of "I'll... | |
 | 1853 - 574 sidor
...To keep those very many bodies safe." P. 283. When the King, in his soliloquy, says, — " Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself Buys out the law," we need no great persuasion to make us believe that we ought to read, as a manuscript note tells us,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 sidor
...rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. KL iv. 6. 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 so above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 sidor
...Isabella or that of the praying Claudius who knew that 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. Lest the audience should be tempted to dismiss what Lear says as mere raving, Shakespeare provides... | |
 | Ernest Gellner - 1979 - 400 sidor
...once freed, is very difficult to contain. In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's guilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. . . Thus mused that rather inefficient authoritarian monarch, Hamlet's uncle. In modern dictatorships,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 sidor
...Queen. May one be pardoned and retain th'offence? 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 so above: 60 There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - 1992 - 168 sidor
...and my queen. May one be pardon'd, and retain the offence? In the corrupted currents of this world, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves... | |
 | Benjamin S. Llamzon - 1993 - 398 sidor
...between moral worth and perfect and consummate justice. Not here perhaps, but surely in the hereafter. In the corrupted currents of this world, Offense's...'tis seen the wicked prize itself, Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above. There is no shuffling, there the action lies in its true nature, and we ourselves... | |
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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... 
