King LearCommercial Press, 1922 - 385 pages |
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Page 59
... weakness ; while Edmund , by seeming to doubt his brother's guilt and by counselling patience , deepens his father's suspicion and incites his passion . 71. sounded : endeavoured to discover your opinion or attitude . The word is a term ...
... weakness ; while Edmund , by seeming to doubt his brother's guilt and by counselling patience , deepens his father's suspicion and incites his passion . 71. sounded : endeavoured to discover your opinion or attitude . The word is a term ...
Page 105
... weakness . His uncontrolled emotion now masters his body ; and , against his will , he weeps . While thus in tears , his curses lose their awful grandeur and become the mere exclamations of passion . The time element in this play is a ...
... weakness . His uncontrolled emotion now masters his body ; and , against his will , he weeps . While thus in tears , his curses lose their awful grandeur and become the mere exclamations of passion . The time element in this play is a ...
Page 123
... weakness is that of too great trust in a brother , whose strength of physical manhood he admires , against a father of whom he has had little occasion for personal knowledge . Gloucester has shown himself to be superstitious ( I. II ...
... weakness is that of too great trust in a brother , whose strength of physical manhood he admires , against a father of whom he has had little occasion for personal knowledge . Gloucester has shown himself to be superstitious ( I. II ...
Page 133
... for consideration . 1. Edmund's superior intellectualism . 2. The nature of Edgar's weakness . Scene II . Before Gloucester's Castle . Enter Kent and Scene I. 133 KING LEAR Before the scene closes the attention is brought back to ...
... for consideration . 1. Edmund's superior intellectualism . 2. The nature of Edgar's weakness . Scene II . Before Gloucester's Castle . Enter Kent and Scene I. 133 KING LEAR Before the scene closes the attention is brought back to ...
Page 171
... weakness he seeks comfort and , like a child to his mother , turns to Regan with a breaking voice . In his hunger for love he is a child ; and only as a child , not as a man , can he be influenced . Kent , who has been set free ...
... weakness he seeks comfort and , like a child to his mother , turns to Regan with a breaking voice . In his hunger for love he is a child ; and only as a child , not as a man , can he be influenced . Kent , who has been set free ...
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