King LearGrosset & Dunlap, 1909 - 208 pages |
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Page xvi
... probably meant to distinguish the drama from another on the same subject , and to make the purchaser sure that he was getting the genuine work of Shakespeare : it also argues that the publisher found his interest , and perhaps his pride ...
... probably meant to distinguish the drama from another on the same subject , and to make the purchaser sure that he was getting the genuine work of Shakespeare : it also argues that the publisher found his interest , and perhaps his pride ...
Page xviii
... Probably he took from that source some hints for the part of Kent . Perhaps it should be re- marked that his most judicious departures from the his- tory , such as the madness of Lear and the death of Lear and Cordelia at the close ...
... Probably he took from that source some hints for the part of Kent . Perhaps it should be re- marked that his most judicious departures from the his- tory , such as the madness of Lear and the death of Lear and Cordelia at the close ...
Page xxv
... probably of a later date than the play , and partly founded upon it . There has been a good deal of impertinent criticism spent upon the circumstance , that in the details and cos- tume of this play the Poet did not hold himself to the ...
... probably of a later date than the play , and partly founded upon it . There has been a good deal of impertinent criticism spent upon the circumstance , that in the details and cos- tume of this play the Poet did not hold himself to the ...
Page xxvi
... probably stand the severest inquisitions that criticism has strength to prosecute . On this point , Mr. Verplanck has given us , under the head of Costume , one of the choicest pieces of criticism that we have met with ; part of which ...
... probably stand the severest inquisitions that criticism has strength to prosecute . On this point , Mr. Verplanck has given us , under the head of Costume , one of the choicest pieces of criticism that we have met with ; part of which ...
Page xxvii
... probably the English bard was the nearest to historical truth . " Such is our theory , in support of which we throw down our critical glove , daring any champion to meet us on some wider field than our present limits can afford . The ...
... probably the English bard was the nearest to historical truth . " Such is our theory , in support of which we throw down our critical glove , daring any champion to meet us on some wider field than our present limits can afford . The ...
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Alack Albany better character Child Rowland cockney conj Cordelia Corn Cornwall daugh daughters death doth drama duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Earl Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel filial folio follows Fool fortune France Gent give Gloster Glou Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Goneril and Regan grace hand hast hath heart Historia Britonum hither ISRAEL GOLLANCZ Kent King Lear King of France kingdom knave lady Lear's look lord madam master means mind nature ness never night noble nuncle Omitted Oswald passion pity play poor Poor Tom pray Prithee quartos Quartos.-I. G. Regan scene seems servant Shakespeare shame sister speak speech stand storm tell thee Theobald thine thing thou art tragedy traitor trumpet unnatural villain William Shakespeare words
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Page 85 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 102 - ... heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it. Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman outparamoured the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
Page 140 - 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 yon...
Page 22 - 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 moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base, base...
Page 8 - Tell me, my daughters, (Since now we will divest us, both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of State,) Which of you, shall we say, doth love us most ? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge).
Page 103 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on "s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Page 27 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, 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...
Page 145 - Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life : what was thy cause ? — Adultery. — Thou shalt not die : die for adultery ? No : The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive ; for Gloster's bastard son Was kinder to his father, than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
Page 182 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, — look, — her lips, — Look there, look there ! [Dies.
Page 147 - Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? GLOUCESTER. Ay, sir. K. LEAR. And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority; a dog 's obeyed in office.