| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...heinous a respect of grief. Const. He talks to me that never had a son. K. Phi. You are as fond of your grief as of your child. . Const. Grief fills the room...vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. u. Arthur. Good morning, Hubert. Hubert. Good morrow, little Prince. A. As little... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...hysterica passio " of Lear — is swallowed up in the mother's sense of her final bereavement : — " Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief. Fare you well : had you such a lose as 1, I could give better comfort than you... | |
| Richard Howard Stamelman - Absence in literature - 1990 - 324 pages
...eloquently observes in Shakespeare's King John: Therefore never, never Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. Grief fills the room up of my absent child. Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of Grief. Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you... | |
| Kristin Linklater - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...produces reason How I may be deliver'd of these woes, And teaches me to kill or hang myself. and later: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. King John, Act HI, Scene Hi She is not "talking about" her emotional state, she... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...rightly. SENECA, (c. 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman. Epistulae ad Lucilium, epistle 68,1.13. 9 Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Constance, in King John,... | |
| Judith Viorst - Self-Help - 2010 - 452 pages
...Constance: "You are as fond of your grief as of your child," she offers him this desperate explanation: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief. Another version of chronic grief is the so-called "mummification" of the dead,... | |
| Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...has Queen Constance in Act III Scene 4 lament the fate of her son Arthur in these lines that follow: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form: Then have I reason to be fond of grief . Of course, I could be wrong. My linking of the writing of this speech with what... | |
| Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...suggested Shakespeare wrote Hamnet's epitaph in the words of Arthur's mother Constance in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. . ." But although the sentiments certainly evoke every reality of grief for a lost child, Dr Rowse's... | |
| Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...Pand. You hold too heinous a respect of grief. Const. He talks to me that never had a son. K. Phil. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Const....vacant garments with his form: Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? VI. ON Music From Newman, University Sermons (quoted in RH Mutton's Cardinal Newman).... | |
| Timothy Morton - Cooking - 2000 - 246 pages
...Shakespeare has beautifully painted this passion, in the lamentation of Constance for her son, in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son; My life, my joy, my food, my all the world.... | |
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