 | Theodor Meron - 1998 - Broj stranica: 256
...unto me? SALISBURY: I have. KING HENRY: Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? SALISBURY: It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin...sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man, To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To reave the orphan of his patrimony,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - Broj stranica: 196
...thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? 179 SALISBURY It is great sin to swear unto a sin, ixo But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man, To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To reave the orphan of his patrimony,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - Broj stranica: 244
...itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. Ghost — Hamlet Iv VOWS: "Men's faiths are wafer-cakes" It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin...sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man, To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To reave the orphan of his patrimony,... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - Broj stranica: 390
.... . Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?" (5.1.177—79). To this, Salisbury answers, "It is great sin to swear unto a sin, / But greater sin to keep a sinful oath" (5.1.180— 81). The queen remarks, "A subtle traitor needs no sophister" (5.1.189). Shakespeare allows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - Broj stranica: 334
...expect dispensation from. 167 frosty white with age The phrase may carry overtones of the SALISBURY It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin...sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man, 185 To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To reave the orphan of his... | |
 | Dominique Goy-Blanquet - 2003 - Broj stranica: 330
...the Duke of York. In Act V the King recalls the allegiance sworn to him, to which Salisbury retorts: It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. (v. L 181-3l According to Holinshed, 'The duke ofYorke hauing aforehand obtained an absolution of the... | |
 | Frances A. Shirley - 2005 - Broj stranica: 200
...such an oath?' (V, i, 179-81). Salisbury's rationalisation points ahead to arguments in later plays: It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin...sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man . . . And have no other reason for this wrong But that he was bound by... | |
 | O. Hood Phillips - 2005 - Broj stranica: 240
...Shakespeare'. is to do something that is contrary to the basic principles of justice: Salisbury. It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. (2 Henry VI, v. i) 'The works of Shakespeare', Wu concludes, 'are strewn with grains of human wisdom.'... | |
 | B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol - 2003
...Salisbury among heavy sins that cannot be excused even by the commitment of taking an honourable oath: It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin...sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man, To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To reave the orphan of his patrimony,... | |
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It is great sin to swear unto a sin ., But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. 
