King LearLippincott, 1908 - 503 pages |
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ABBOTT Albany better Bodl called CAPELL character Child Rowland Coll COLLIER conj Cordelia Cornwall Cotgrave daughters death DELIUS Dover Duke Dyce ECCLES Edgar edition Edmund emendation Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father Folio Fool Gent gives Gloster Glou Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril hath heart Huds insanity instances JENNENS Johns JOHNSON Kent King Lear Ktly Lear's Leir lord Macb madness MALONE means MOBERLY nature night omission Oswald passage passion phrase placket play poet poor Pope Pope+ Prose Q₁ Q₂ Qq et cet QqFf Quartos reading Regan Rowe Rowe+ says scene SCHMIDT Lex seems sense Shakespeare Sing sisters speak speech Steev STEEVENS suppose thee Theob thing thou thought tragedy verb WALKER Crit Warb WARBURTON word WRIGHT
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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.