King Lear

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Lippincott, 1908 - 503 pages
 

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Page 355 - Rule in this realm and the gored state sustain. Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. Edg. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. 325 316.
Page 142 - That ever penury in contempt of man Brought near to beast; my face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots, And with presented nakedness out-face The winds and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who with roaring voices 8. ever]
Page 194 - Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters! Kent. He hath no daughters, sir. Lear. Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness but his unkind daughters. Is it the fashion that discarded fathers 70 Should have thus little mercy on their flesh ? Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot 58. star-blasting]
Page 51 - Clou. These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us; though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the se- IOO quent effects; love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, 96.
Page 243 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes; that I am wretched Makes thee the happier. Heavens, deal so still! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess 62. thou] QqF
Page 86 - Lear. Woe, that too late repents,—O, sir, are you come ? Is it your will ? Speak, sir.—Prepare my horses.— Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster! Alb. Pray, sir, be patient. 255 Lear. Detested kite! thou liest My train are men of choice and rarest parts, 249-250.
Page 190 - Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? Oh, 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 35 And show the heavens more just Edg. [Within] Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom! [The Fool runs out from the hovel.
Page 274 - height whence the King of Glory beholds Chaos: «On heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore They view'd the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, Up from the bottom turn'd by furious winds And surging waves, as mountains, to assault Heaven's highth, and with the centre mix the
Page 172 - Storm still. Enter KENT and a Gentleman, severally. Kent. Who's there, besides foul weather ? Gent. One minded like the weather, most unquietly. Kent. I know you. Where's the king ? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main. 303. to-}
Page 289 - 11 able '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.—Now, now, now, now. 170 Pull off my boots; harder, harder, so. 161.

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