 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...youi majesty ? * Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o'lhe grave : — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molteu lead. Cor. Sir, do you know me? Lear. You are a spirit, I know ; When did'you die?... | |
 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1855 - 858 pages
...own shadow for a traitor." And Lear, in language still more expressive of misery, thus complains : I am bound Upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead." 2d. Partial Delusion.(v) § 245. Under this head maybe enumerated, Delusions... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1855 - 252 pages
...own shadow for a traitor." And Lear, in language still more expressive of misery, thus complains : I am bound Upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead." 2d. Partial Delusion.(v) § 245. Under this head may be enumerated, Delusions... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...fares your majesty t LEAR. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave :— Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. COR. Sir, do you know me ? SCENE VII. KING LEAR. 85 COR. Still, still, far... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 pages
...and been reborn into an afterlife, and he talks about tears to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.45-47) These are the tears of ashamed self-knowledge, manly tears caused... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pages
...reunited with his daughter LEAR You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. ( IV. vii) In radically transforming the source of King Lear, Shakespeare,... | |
 | William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 pages
...66) of Cordelia's forgiveness: You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead, (IVvii.45-48) once again a syncretic image, which the New Arden editor annotates... | |
 | Ronald L. Dotterer - 1989 - 252 pages
...eternally through hell. Lear explicitly compares his experience with that of Ixion when he exclaims, 'I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead' (4.7.4648). "10 Ixion tried to seduce Hera (Juno), who formed a cloud in her... | |
 | William Irwin Thompson - 1990 - 484 pages
...wheel and can say with King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out o th' grave. Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. FIVE AD2000: The Millennium Under New Management "Major fighting in Viet Nam... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 pages
...old man'.38 There is certainly a humbled quality in his words to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.39 There is little more than that. Bradley thinks that Lear finds knowledge... | |
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tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. 
