Tragedy of King Lear: With Introduction and Notes, Explanatory and Critical, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath & Company, 1882 |
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... give a condensed statement . The " Princes " who figure in Sidney's work , being over- taken by a furious storm , are forced to seek shelter in a hol- low rock , where , themselves unseen , they overhear a dialogue between an aged man ...
... give a condensed statement . The " Princes " who figure in Sidney's work , being over- taken by a furious storm , are forced to seek shelter in a hol- low rock , where , themselves unseen , they overhear a dialogue between an aged man ...
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... give it voice . Certainly , in none of his plays do we more feel the presence and power of that wonderful diction , not to say language , which he gradually wrought out and built up as the fitting and necessary organ of his thought ...
... give it voice . Certainly , in none of his plays do we more feel the presence and power of that wonderful diction , not to say language , which he gradually wrought out and built up as the fitting and necessary organ of his thought ...
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... give it a peculiar quickness and alertness of action . Near the close of the King's last interview with these dreadful creatures , we have the following : Gon . Why might not you , my lord , receive attendance From those that she calls ...
... give it a peculiar quickness and alertness of action . Near the close of the King's last interview with these dreadful creatures , we have the following : Gon . Why might not you , my lord , receive attendance From those that she calls ...
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... give her up , cannot be provoked to curse her ; he will not see , will not own to himself the fact of her revolt . When , however , the truth is forced home , and he can no longer evade or shuffle off the conviction , the effect is ...
... give her up , cannot be provoked to curse her ; he will not see , will not own to himself the fact of her revolt . When , however , the truth is forced home , and he can no longer evade or shuffle off the conviction , the effect is ...
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... gives us the best expressions of the Christian Ideal that are to be met with in Poetry and Art . I am really unable to say what divines may have interpreted more truly or more inspiringly the moral sense , the ethos of our religion ...
... gives us the best expressions of the Christian Ideal that are to be met with in Poetry and Art . I am really unable to say what divines may have interpreted more truly or more inspiringly the moral sense , the ethos of our religion ...
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Page 140 - 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.
Page 60 - 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 90 - Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility; Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
Page 180 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Page 130 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man ! Fool.
Page 180 - em: Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 226 - 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...
Page 224 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Page 132 - Lear. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake, That under covert and convenient seeming Hast practised on man's life : close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents and cry These dreadful summoners grace.
Page 174 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.