 On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage. While we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear : we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms.  The Bombay Quarterly Review - Page 3831857Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pages
...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid hare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on...corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage: while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear,— We are in his mind, we are sustained by... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on ; even as he himself neglects if. On (he stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage : while... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on...corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage : while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear — we are in his mind, we are sustained... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...rase of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on ; even as he himself neglects if. On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage : while we read if, we see not Lear, but we are Lear — we are in his mind, we are sustained... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...rich sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on...corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear ;—we are in his mind, we are sustained by... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on...corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage • while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...neglects it. On the stage we see no thing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear;...sustained by a grandeur, which baffles the malice of daughters and storms ; in the aherralions of his reason, we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...rich sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on...even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see 110thing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence or rage ; while we read it, we see not... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is bis mind which is laid bare. This care of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on...corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage : while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear; — we are in bis mind, we are sustained... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 pages
...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on;...himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but corporeal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we... | |
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