King LearGrosset & Dunlap, 1909 - 208 Seiten |
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... fall worse than I am . He answered , - " Dear father , do not take away & from me the only remnant of my happiness : while I have power to do you service , I am not wholly miserable . ” C These speeches , and some others to like purpose ...
... fall worse than I am . He answered , - " Dear father , do not take away & from me the only remnant of my happiness : while I have power to do you service , I am not wholly miserable . ” C These speeches , and some others to like purpose ...
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... fall within the lines of any jurisdiction for settling dates : it is amenable to no laws but the laws of art , any more than if it were entirely of the Poet's own creation : its true whereabout is in the reader's mind ; and the only ...
... fall within the lines of any jurisdiction for settling dates : it is amenable to no laws but the laws of art , any more than if it were entirely of the Poet's own creation : its true whereabout is in the reader's mind ; and the only ...
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... fall back and go to comparing his shows with our ex- periences , he seems rather to have beguiled us with illu- sions , than edified us with truth . All which , we suspect , is more our fault than his . And that criticism is best ...
... fall back and go to comparing his shows with our ex- periences , he seems rather to have beguiled us with illu- sions , than edified us with truth . All which , we suspect , is more our fault than his . And that criticism is best ...
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... falls to striking her . Men sometimes take a secret pleasure in the mere exer- cise of the will without or against reason , as if they could make that right or true which is not so in itself . For such a course has to their feelings the ...
... falls to striking her . Men sometimes take a secret pleasure in the mere exer- cise of the will without or against reason , as if they could make that right or true which is not so in itself . For such a course has to their feelings the ...
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... falls down in a sediment , so as to be producible in a separate state . She has a deeper and truer knowledge of her sisters , than any one else about them ; but she knows them rather by heart than by head ; / and so can feel and act ...
... falls down in a sediment , so as to be producible in a separate state . She has a deeper and truer knowledge of her sisters , than any one else about them ; but she knows them rather by heart than by head ; / and so can feel and act ...
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Alack Albany better character Child Rowland cockney conj Cordelia Corn Cornwall daugh daughters death doth drama duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Earl Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel filial folio follows Fool fortune France Gent give Gloster Glou Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Goneril and Regan grace hand hast hath heart Historia Britonum hither ISRAEL GOLLANCZ Kent King Lear King of France kingdom knave lady Lear's look lord madam master means mind nature ness never night noble nuncle Omitted Oswald passion pity play poor Poor Tom pray Prithee quartos Quartos.-I. G. Regan scene seems servant Shakespeare shame sister speak speech stand storm tell thee Theobald thine thing thou art tragedy traitor trumpet unnatural villain William Shakespeare words
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Seite 85 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Seite 102 - ... heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it. Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman outparamoured the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
Seite 140 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Seite 22 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base, base...
Seite 8 - Tell me, my daughters, (Since now we will divest us, both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of State,) Which of you, shall we say, doth love us most ? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge).
Seite 103 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on "s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Seite 27 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Seite 145 - Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life : what was thy cause ? — Adultery. — Thou shalt not die : die for adultery ? No : The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive ; for Gloster's bastard son Was kinder to his father, than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
Seite 182 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, — look, — her lips, — Look there, look there ! [Dies.
Seite 147 - Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? GLOUCESTER. Ay, sir. K. LEAR. And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority; a dog 's obeyed in office.