The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: King Lear. Timon of AthensGinn & Heath, 1881 |
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... perhaps of no great account on the stage , is , in the reading , one of the sweetest and loveliest in all Shakespeare . This naturally infers the folio to have been printed from a playhouse copy in which the play had been cut down , to ...
... perhaps of no great account on the stage , is , in the reading , one of the sweetest and loveliest in all Shakespeare . This naturally infers the folio to have been printed from a playhouse copy in which the play had been cut down , to ...
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... perhaps , different spellings of the same verb , but two distinct words , though of the same import ; the one being derived from the Latin , the other from the French interesser . 20 We have the same thought well expressed in The Maid's ...
... perhaps , different spellings of the same verb , but two distinct words , though of the same import ; the one being derived from the Latin , the other from the French interesser . 20 We have the same thought well expressed in The Maid's ...
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... were used indiscriminately . 24 Probably meaning his children ; perhaps simply his kind . 25 Sometime , here , is former or formerly . See vol . xiv . page 146 , note 12 . 12622 Kent . Lear . Peace , Kent ! Good 14 ACT I. KING LEAR .
... were used indiscriminately . 24 Probably meaning his children ; perhaps simply his kind . 25 Sometime , here , is former or formerly . See vol . xiv . page 146 , note 12 . 12622 Kent . Lear . Peace , Kent ! Good 14 ACT I. KING LEAR .
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... Perhaps alluding , satirically , to the awkward catastrophes of the old comedies , which were coarsely contrived so as to have the persons enter , pat , just when they were wanted on the stage . — Cue , as here used , is prompt - word ...
... Perhaps alluding , satirically , to the awkward catastrophes of the old comedies , which were coarsely contrived so as to have the persons enter , pat , just when they were wanted on the stage . — Cue , as here used , is prompt - word ...
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... perhaps a better authority , assures Mr. W. A. Wright , the Clarendon editor , that there is no foundation for Burney's remark ; and that " Edmund is merely singing to himself in order not to seem to observe Edgar's approach . " 20 That ...
... perhaps a better authority , assures Mr. W. A. Wright , the Clarendon editor , that there is no foundation for Burney's remark ; and that " Edmund is merely singing to himself in order not to seem to observe Edgar's approach . " 20 That ...
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Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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...