Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter |
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... late : the kind consolations of filial care and attention and of true friendship are now lost on him ; his bodily and mental powers are destroyed beyond all hope of recovery , and all that now remains to him of life is the capability of ...
... late : the kind consolations of filial care and attention and of true friendship are now lost on him ; his bodily and mental powers are destroyed beyond all hope of recovery , and all that now remains to him of life is the capability of ...
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... late , or overmatched by the cunning activity of malice . The persons of this drama have only such a faint belief in Providence as heathens may be supposed to have ; and the poet here wishes to show us that this belief requires a wider ...
... late , or overmatched by the cunning activity of malice . The persons of this drama have only such a faint belief in Providence as heathens may be supposed to have ; and the poet here wishes to show us that this belief requires a wider ...
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... late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us . Though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus , yet Nature finds itself scourged by the se- quent effects : -love cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide : in ...
... late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us . Though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus , yet Nature finds itself scourged by the se- quent effects : -love cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide : in ...
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... late e ; which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity , than as a very pretence2 and purpose of unkindness : I will look further into ' t . - But where's my fool ? I have not seen him this two days . Knight . Since my young ...
... late e ; which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity , than as a very pretence2 and purpose of unkindness : I will look further into ' t . - But where's my fool ? I have not seen him this two days . Knight . Since my young ...
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... late i ' the frown . Fool . Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning ; now thou art an O without a figure : 2 I am better than thou art now : I am a fool , thou art nothing . - Yes , forsooth , [ To GoN ...
... late i ' the frown . Fool . Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning ; now thou art an O without a figure : 2 I am better than thou art now : I am a fool , thou art nothing . - Yes , forsooth , [ To GoN ...
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Page 122 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 66 - You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both, If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 7 - Good my lord , You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands , if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him , half my care and duty : Sure , 1 shall never marry like my sisters , To love my father all.
Page 100 - Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd ? A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate ! have you madded.
Page 19 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Page 5 - 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.
Page 140 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Page 114 - em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 7 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 115 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...