King LearCommercial Press, 1922 - 385 pages |
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... children at play , but ' when we look for these jewels by day we see only wretched little ' worms which crawl painfully away , and which the foot forbears to ' crush only out of strange pity . ' King Lear is rightly called a tragedy ...
... children at play , but ' when we look for these jewels by day we see only wretched little ' worms which crawl painfully away , and which the foot forbears to ' crush only out of strange pity . ' King Lear is rightly called a tragedy ...
Page 7
... child of passion , is perhaps the more emotionally sensitive to these wanton insults . The nature of the insults shows what he must have had to suffer through all the years of his youth . A child of lawless passion , he has inherited ...
... child of passion , is perhaps the more emotionally sensitive to these wanton insults . The nature of the insults shows what he must have had to suffer through all the years of his youth . A child of lawless passion , he has inherited ...
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... child e'er lov'd or father found ; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable ; Beyond all manner of so much I love you . Cordelia . What shall Cordelia speak ? Love and be silent . Lear . Of all these bounds , even from this line ...
... child e'er lov'd or father found ; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable ; Beyond all manner of so much I love you . Cordelia . What shall Cordelia speak ? Love and be silent . Lear . Of all these bounds , even from this line ...
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... 87. interest ' : contracted form of interested . 92. An allusion , in translation , to the old saying : Ex nihilo nihil fit . 95. According to my bond : as is my duty . Lear turns to Cordelia , as to his favourite child 16 Act I. KING LEAR.
... 87. interest ' : contracted form of interested . 92. An allusion , in translation , to the old saying : Ex nihilo nihil fit . 95. According to my bond : as is my duty . Lear turns to Cordelia , as to his favourite child 16 Act I. KING LEAR.
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William Shakespeare. Lear turns to Cordelia , as to his favourite child , in fond expecta- tion of even sweeter protestations of love , and is proportionately offended when they are denied . She is his youngest child and his least not ...
William Shakespeare. Lear turns to Cordelia , as to his favourite child , in fond expecta- tion of even sweeter protestations of love , and is proportionately offended when they are denied . She is his youngest child and his least not ...
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