 | G. Wilson Knight - Literary Collections - 2002 - 360 pages
...mental pain (in. iv. 24). Then again the cruel storm draws noble charity from Lear, replacing his ire: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Political Science - 2002 - 228 pages
...says little; to fear judgement; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish. Kent — Lear I.iv Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...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,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...and sudden way. Left to his own thoughts outside the hovel, he has uttered that memorable invocation: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! (1n, iv, 28-33) and he proceeds to the medieval doctrine, itself familiar from exposition in wall-paintings,... | |
 | Janet Hill - Drama - 2002 - 241 pages
...audience, not pushed to the verge but holding all the stage. He addresses the spectators in simple English: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...as these. O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! (3.4.24-33) These words involve everyone in the playhouse; the language is intelligible to all. The... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...this passage, when put alongside that other passage in Lear to which its subject closely relates it— Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? 51 4-2 — is equally inferior in the placing of its terms. In Lear's way of saying these things,... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 406 pages
...had previously done and as Goneril and Regan still do. Outside the hovel on the heath, Lear reflects, Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From reasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to... | |
 | Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 410 pages
...remember to say to myself, thinking of the people of Lawn Lodge, and the desperate season of their lives, Poor naked wretches wheresoe'er you are That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness defend you From seasons such as these. And I thought of the confusion... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Literary Collections - 2002 - 181 pages
...cold? I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow? (III.ii.67) Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window 'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? 0! I have ta'en Too little care of this.... | |
 | Isaac Asimov - Fiction - 2009 - 416 pages
...managing to work up an impression of beggars merely by producing the fluttering of rags, Lear says: "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...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... | |
 | Cynthia J. Bogard - Social Science - 2003 - 256 pages
...past and present May we all pursue our calling with such dedication Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? —William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene iv Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction... | |
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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... 
