Tragedy of King Lear: With Introduction and Notes, Explanatory and Critical, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath & Company, 1882 |
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... hold himself to the date of the forecited legend . That date was some nine hundred years before Christ ; yet the play abounds in the manners , sentiments , and allusions of modern England . Malone is scandalized that Edgar in the play ...
... hold himself to the date of the forecited legend . That date was some nine hundred years before Christ ; yet the play abounds in the manners , sentiments , and allusions of modern England . Malone is scandalized that Edgar in the play ...
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... hold ties are turned to their contraries . He feels himself the victim of a disgrace for which he is not to blame ; which he cannot hope to outgrow ; which no degree of personal worth can efface ; and from which he sees no escape but in ...
... hold ties are turned to their contraries . He feels himself the victim of a disgrace for which he is not to blame ; which he cannot hope to outgrow ; which no degree of personal worth can efface ; and from which he sees no escape but in ...
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... holds himself unbound by them . He came into the world in spite of them ; perhaps he owes his gifts to a breach of them : may he not , then , seek to thrive by circumventing them ? Since his dimensions are so well compact , his mind so ...
... holds himself unbound by them . He came into the world in spite of them ; perhaps he owes his gifts to a breach of them : may he not , then , seek to thrive by circumventing them ? Since his dimensions are so well compact , his mind so ...
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... holds , to my mind , much the same pre - eminence over all others which I accord to the tragedy as a dramatic compo- sition . The delineation reminds me , oftener than any other , of what some one has said of Shakespeare , — that if he ...
... holds , to my mind , much the same pre - eminence over all others which I accord to the tragedy as a dramatic compo- sition . The delineation reminds me , oftener than any other , of what some one has said of Shakespeare , — that if he ...
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... hold of and cling to and rest upon , his mind was the abode of order and peace . But , now that his feelings are rendered object- less , torn from their accustomed holdings , and thrown back upon themselves , there springs up a wild ...
... hold of and cling to and rest upon , his mind was the abode of order and peace . But , now that his feelings are rendered object- less , torn from their accustomed holdings , and thrown back upon themselves , there springs up a wild ...
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Página 140 - 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. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Página 60 - 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, 1 shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Página 90 - Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility; Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
Página 180 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Página 130 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man ! Fool.
Página 180 - em: Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Página 226 - 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...
Página 224 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Página 132 - Lear. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake, That under covert and convenient seeming Hast practised on man's life : close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents and cry These dreadful summoners grace.
Página 174 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.