King Lear. Timon of AthensGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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... mind . This of course brings down the date of composition at least to near the close of the year 1605 . The tragedy was printed at least twice , some editors say three times , in the year 1608 , the form being in each case a small ...
... mind . This of course brings down the date of composition at least to near the close of the year 1605 . The tragedy was printed at least twice , some editors say three times , in the year 1608 , the form being in each case a small ...
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... mind as generous , and my shape as true , As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ? Who , in the lusty stealth of nature , take More composition and fierce quality Than doth ...
... mind as generous , and my shape as true , As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ? Who , in the lusty stealth of nature , take More composition and fierce quality Than doth ...
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... mind and mine , I know , in that are one , Not to be over - ruled . Idle old man , That still would manage those authorities That he hath given away ! Now , by my life , Old fools are babes again ; and must be used With checks , when ...
... mind and mine , I know , in that are one , Not to be over - ruled . Idle old man , That still would manage those authorities That he hath given away ! Now , by my life , Old fools are babes again ; and must be used With checks , when ...
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... mind , judgment , or understanding , occurs repeatedly . So that the meaning is , " Either his mind is breaking down , or else it has fallen into a lethargy . " 27 Here " marks of sovereignty , " as I take it , are sovereign marks , and ...
... mind , judgment , or understanding , occurs repeatedly . So that the meaning is , " Either his mind is breaking down , or else it has fallen into a lethargy . " 27 Here " marks of sovereignty , " as I take it , are sovereign marks , and ...
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... off . " 12 The mind's own anticipation of madness ! The deepest tragic notes are often struck by a half - sense of the impending blow . - Coleridge . ACT II . SCENE I. A Court within GLOSTER'S Castle SCENE V. 47 KING LEAR .
... off . " 12 The mind's own anticipation of madness ! The deepest tragic notes are often struck by a half - sense of the impending blow . - Coleridge . ACT II . SCENE I. A Court within GLOSTER'S Castle SCENE V. 47 KING LEAR .
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Albany Alcib Alcibiades Apem Apemantus Athens better Burgundy Caph 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 lordship Lucullus madam master meaning nature never 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 tell thee Theobald There's thine thing thou art thyself Troilus and Cressida villain Walker word wretched
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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 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 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...
Page 90 - 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.
Page 200 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 122 - 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 yond...
Page 113 - Could my good brother suffer you to do it ? A man, a prince, by him so benefited ! If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.