King LearMacmillan & Company, 1935 - 185 pages |
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... nature is so far from doing harms , That he suspects none . This frankness and nobility he preserves untainted throughout the play . At the beginning his mistaken confidence in his half - brother and his natural diffi- dence almost make ...
... nature is so far from doing harms , That he suspects none . This frankness and nobility he preserves untainted throughout the play . At the beginning his mistaken confidence in his half - brother and his natural diffi- dence almost make ...
Page 55
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life's as cheap as beast's If only to go warm were gorgeous , thou art a lady ; 271 Why , nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st , Which scarcely keeps thee warm . But , for true need , — You ...
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life's as cheap as beast's If only to go warm were gorgeous , thou art a lady ; 271 Why , nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st , Which scarcely keeps thee warm . But , for true need , — You ...
Page 139
... nature : compels himself to adopt a character quite different from his natural one . If his be taken as the equivalent of " its " -it often is the neuter possessive in Shakespeare the meaning would be : he wholly distorts bluntness from ...
... nature : compels himself to adopt a character quite different from his natural one . If his be taken as the equivalent of " its " -it often is the neuter possessive in Shakespeare the meaning would be : he wholly distorts bluntness from ...
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