The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: King Lear. Timon of AthensGinn & Heath, 1881 |
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... nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects . " A great eclipse of the Sun took place in October , 1605 ... nature , " he had reasoned against the common belief , that such natural events were ominous of disaster , or had any ...
... nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects . " A great eclipse of the Sun took place in October , 1605 ... nature , " he had reasoned against the common belief , that such natural events were ominous of disaster , or had any ...
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... natural father ; and , if you would under- stand more of the love I bear you , assure yourself that so much as you are worth , so much I love you , and no more . " The father , being nothing content with this answer , married his two ...
... natural father ; and , if you would under- stand more of the love I bear you , assure yourself that so much as you are worth , so much I love you , and no more . " The father , being nothing content with this answer , married his two ...
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... Nature grants to the poorest creatures . By this and other unnatural dealings he hath been driven to such grief , that even now he would have me lead him to the top of this rock , thence to cast himself headlong to death ; and so would ...
... Nature grants to the poorest creatures . By this and other unnatural dealings he hath been driven to such grief , that even now he would have me lead him to the top of this rock , thence to cast himself headlong to death ; and so would ...
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... Court . 7 " Constant will " is fixed or determined will ; the same as " fast intent . " 8 " That future strife may be prevented by what we now do , " That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth SCENE I. II KING LEAR .
... Court . 7 " Constant will " is fixed or determined will ; the same as " fast intent . " 8 " That future strife may be prevented by what we now do , " That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth SCENE I. II KING LEAR .
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... Nature is put for natural affection , and with merit is used adverbially : " That I may extend my largest bounty where natural affection justly , or meritoriously , challenges it " ; that is , claims it as due . 10 " My love is a matter ...
... Nature is put for natural affection , and with merit is used adverbially : " That I may extend my largest bounty where natural affection justly , or meritoriously , challenges it " ; that is , claims it as due . 10 " My love is a matter ...
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Albany Alcib Alcibiades Apem Apemantus Athens better Burgundy Caph CAPHIS Collier's second folio Cord Cordelia Corn Cornwall correction daughters dear dost thou doth duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Faerie Queene father Flavius follows Fool foot-note fortune friends Gent gerundively give Glos Gloster gods gold Goneril hand Hanmer hast hath hear heart honour Kent King King Lear knave lady Lear live Lord Timon Lucullus madam master meaning nature night noble nuncle old text original reads OSWALD Pain passage PHRYNIA pity play Poet Poet's poor pr'ythee pray probably quartos Regan SCENE Senators sense Serv Servants Servilius Shakespeare sister slave speak speech Stew Steward sword tell thee Theobald There's thine thing thou art thyself Troilus and Cressida villain Walker word wretched
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Page 87 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 138 - 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 14 - 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, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 159 - LEAR 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'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 99 - Lear. Then let them anatomize Regan ; see what breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts...
Page 138 - Lear. 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 130 - 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 145 - 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 76 - 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 27 - ... 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 : an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on...