 torment to her! Let it ftamp wrinkles in her brow of youth; With * cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks; Turn all her mother's pains, and benefits, To laughter and contempt; that me may feel, How fharper than a ferpent's tooth it is, To have a thanklefs  Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear - Page 349by William Shakespeare - 1773Full view - About this book
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth. With cadent tears fret...pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! (I, iv) 73 Fathers... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - Drama - 1993 - 290 pages
..."horrible object" presents a Medusan fetish13. See also Lear's earlier curse against Goneril: "Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, / With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks" (I.iv.zSa— object of multiple pricking and self-mutilation, visually materializing Lear's "plague-sore"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. 250 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret...pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel That she may feel 235 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. 270 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret...pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! — Away, away! [Exit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 964 pages
...her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. ¡»o Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret...pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! Away, away! Exit ALBANY... | |
 | North American review - 1922 - 956 pages
...Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret...mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt. Anyone who can endure reading this superb and awful curse knows that Shakespeare spent himself relentlessly... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...Create her child of Spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent Tears fret Channels in her cheeks . . . (FF.l, 4: 790-99) Lear's curse on his daughter's physical beauty, her "brow of youth," speaks... | |
 | Minette Walters - Fiction - 1995 - 388 pages
..."Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth; With cadent tears fret...pains and benefits To laughter and contempt; that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!" —Shakespeare, King... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 324 pages
...her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels m her cheeks, 270 Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! Away, away! Albany... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart, disnatur'd torment to her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth. With cadent tears fret...pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! Away, away! (1.4.297-311)... | |
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