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... passionately weeps for his lost father , because he is too rustic to know the manners of the city , and too young for his heart to be yet crusted by hardness and want of natural affection . it In these latter days a fresh interest has been.
... passionately weeps for his lost father , because he is too rustic to know the manners of the city , and too young for his heart to be yet crusted by hardness and want of natural affection . it In these latter days a fresh interest has been.
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... LEAR , carrying on , as Gervinus says , his jester's part with a heavy heart , careworn , suppressing his own anguish with songs and jokes , and striving to outjest the fury of the elements . Nor should we INTRODUCTION.
... LEAR , carrying on , as Gervinus says , his jester's part with a heavy heart , careworn , suppressing his own anguish with songs and jokes , and striving to outjest the fury of the elements . Nor should we INTRODUCTION.
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... heart I find she names my very deed of love ; Only she comes too short , that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys , Which the most precious square of sense possesses ; And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness ' love ...
... heart I find she names my very deed of love ; Only she comes too short , that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys , Which the most precious square of sense possesses ; And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness ' love ...
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... heart and me Hold thee , from this , for ever . The barbarous Scythian , Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite , shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd , pitied , and relieved , As thou my sometime daughter ...
... heart and me Hold thee , from this , for ever . The barbarous Scythian , Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite , shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd , pitied , and relieved , As thou my sometime daughter ...
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... heart and brain to breed it in ? -When came this to you ? who brought it ? EDM . It was not brought me , my lord ; there's the cunning of it ; I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet . GLOU . You know the character to be your ...
... heart and brain to breed it in ? -When came this to you ? who brought it ? EDM . It was not brought me , my lord ; there's the cunning of it ; I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet . GLOU . You know the character to be your ...
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Page 89 - 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; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 81 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy '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...
Page 25 - 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...
Page 35 - 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...
Page 18 - Lear. Let it be so : thy truth, then, be thy dower. For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night, By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist, and cease to be...
Page 62 - 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 16 - Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love, Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn, And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters, Since now we will divest us both of rule, 50 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 101 - Lear. This feather stirs ; she lives ! if it be so. It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows That ever I have felt Kent.
Page 93 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
Page 102 - The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.