 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1846 - 818 pages
...are satisfied ? " О reason not the need ! our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs — Man's life is cheap as beast's." " There are persons,'7 says the universal doctor, " who give to the poor what they would... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...people at large ; ' O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous, Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's ;' and that there bc extended, even to the lowest classes of society, as regards habitation,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...need one ? Lear. О .' reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Bid farewell to your sisters. Cor. The jewels of our father, w beast's. Thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous. Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...dispensed with. [Lear. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous ; Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts' ; King Lear, ii. 4. - necessity Commands me name myself. CortoZamw, iv. 5. Nature hath need... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 574 pages
...better, at thy leisure. When his two daughters tell him he has no Beed of one servant, he gays : — Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts'. An idea of the materialists, and often introduced by Shak- ,' spere. Lear is made to repeat... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Essays - 1849 - 322 pages
...made answer — c Oh reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not Nature more than Nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's ! ' The plea of ' supporting the station to which Providence has called us/ is not unmeaning,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...What need one? 0 reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. 260 Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | Marjorie L. DeVault - Family & Relationships - 1991 - 288 pages
...4, 1991, p. 1 . vH O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (King Lear, II, iv. 267-70) Regan and Goneril are, of course, women, two of the most vicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...'This was a man!' 50 0 reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | Charles R. Bambach - History - 1995 - 316 pages
...an almost symbolic level his reduction of human needs to less than the "mere necessities" (4.3.373). "Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's," cries Lear, who also explores a primitivist impulse (2.4.261-62); but to Timón the point... | |
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O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 
