O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Página 1171811Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1832 - 384 páginas
...would bring down poor humanity to a level with the brutes; for, as our immortal dramatist has said, " Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's." No one will dispute that wants must be supplied, and wealth abound, before the liberal arts can be... | |
| Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 páginas
...His daughters, insisting that he reduce his train, are challenging his need for having any knights: O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in...lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature need not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. (2.4.262-8) Lear's speech here... | |
| Linda Woodbridge - 2001 - 360 páginas
...arrant whore, / Ne'er turns the key to the poor" (2.4.51-52). Beggars are but a step above beasts: Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous....nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts. (2.4.266-69) Talk of famine recurs: "he that keeps nor crust nor crumb" ( 1.4.195 ). The Fool,... | |
| Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 36 páginas
...Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one? Lear. O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Arc in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Act n Sc iv 18 Lear defies the storm Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts... | |
| Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 páginas
...Regan's part to directly confront her father, which contrasts with the behaviour of Goneril. Quote O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in the poorest thing superfluous. (Act II, Sc. iv, lines 257-258) Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow,/ You cataracts and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 páginas
...means of his sufferings, and aggravations of his daughter's ingratitude. Ib. Lear's speech. : — . 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous, <&c. Observe that the tranquillity which follows'the first stunning of the blow permits Lear to reason.... | |
| Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 páginas
...does not "need" twenty or ten or five of his train. "What need one?" asks Regan. And Lear cries, Oh, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need — and he breaks off, unable to explain that the need he speaks of is not merely of "nature" — a... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 páginas
...And loses that it works for. Iago — Othello III. Hi Nothing will come of nothing. Lear — Lear Li O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 páginas
...'The offices of nature, bond of childhood" better than Goneril (II.iv.181). Lear cries out to Regan: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (II.iv.267-70) Lear, contending with the storm, calls upon it to "Crack Nature's moulds, all germains... | |
| Amo Sulaiman - 2002 - 232 páginas
...for you, Virus. Because, you can't escape your situation of being free. It's like King Lear—'Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs.'" Belinda wanted to stop the conversation from going on any further. She looked around in the restaurant,... | |
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