The Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three DaughtersYale University Press, 1922 - 154 pages |
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... grace , health , beauty , honour ; As much as child e'er fov'd or father found ; 60 A love that makes breath poor and speech unable ; Beyond all manner of so much I love you . Cor . [ Aside . ] What shall Cordelia do ? / Love and be ...
... grace , health , beauty , honour ; As much as child e'er fov'd or father found ; 60 A love that makes breath poor and speech unable ; Beyond all manner of so much I love you . Cor . [ Aside . ] What shall Cordelia do ? / Love and be ...
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... Grace , She's there , and she is yours . Bur . I know no answer . Lear . Will you , with those infirmities she owes , Unfriended , new - adopted to our hate , 204 Dower'd with our curse , and stranger'd with our oath , Take her , or ...
... Grace , She's there , and she is yours . Bur . I know no answer . Lear . Will you , with those infirmities she owes , Unfriended , new - adopted to our hate , 204 Dower'd with our curse , and stranger'd with our oath , Take her , or ...
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... grace and favour , But even for want of that for which I am richer , A still - soliciting eye , and such a tongue That I am glad I have not , though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking . Lear . Better thou 228 236 Hadst not been ...
... grace and favour , But even for want of that for which I am richer , A still - soliciting eye , and such a tongue That I am glad I have not , though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking . Lear . Better thou 228 236 Hadst not been ...
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... grace , our love , our benison . Come , noble Burgundy . Flourish . Exeunt [ Lear , Burgundy , Cornwall , Albany , Gloucester , and Attendants . ] France . Bid farewell to your sisters . Cor . The jewels of our father , with wash'd eyes ...
... grace , our love , our benison . Come , noble Burgundy . Flourish . Exeunt [ Lear , Burgundy , Cornwall , Albany , Gloucester , and Attendants . ] France . Bid farewell to your sisters . Cor . The jewels of our father , with wash'd eyes ...
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... grace in a year ; For wise men are grown foppish , And know not how their wits to wear , Their manners are so apish . Lear . When were you wont to be so full of songs , sirrah ? Fool . I have used it , nuncle , ever since thou madest ...
... grace in a year ; For wise men are grown foppish , And know not how their wits to wear , Their manners are so apish . Lear . When were you wont to be so full of songs , sirrah ? Fool . I have used it , nuncle , ever since thou madest ...
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Page 5 - 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 I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 104 - 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.
Page 4 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 98 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, — dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yond...
Page 85 - To be worst, The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune, Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear: The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter.
Page 68 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 13 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother?
Page 18 - ... by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Page 111 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 31 - 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...