 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2003 - 334 pages
...dispense with 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...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 - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...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 - Art - 2005 - 200 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 240 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 618 pages
...allegiance untóme? Sal. I have. Л'. Hen. Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath F14 Sal. It is great sin to swear unto a sin ; But greater...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,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 1200 pages
...events, utterly inconsistent and irreconcilable with the 8UPREME DIVINE LAW OF CHRI8TIAN UNITY. It is a sin to swear unto a sin ; But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. In my former article I quoted the words, written in 1872, of the Moderator Designate of the General... | |
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It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. 
