King LearHeath, 1908 - 174 pages |
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Page vii
... Edgar , sonne | and heire to the Earle of Gloster , and his | sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam : | As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon | S. Stephans night in Christmas Hollidayes . | By his Maiesties ...
... Edgar , sonne | and heire to the Earle of Gloster , and his | sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam : | As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon | S. Stephans night in Christmas Hollidayes . | By his Maiesties ...
Page ix
... Edgar and Cor- delia , that never changed word with each other in the original . This renders Cordelia's indifference and her father's passion in the first scene probable . It likewise gives countenance to Edgar's disguise , making that ...
... Edgar and Cor- delia , that never changed word with each other in the original . This renders Cordelia's indifference and her father's passion in the first scene probable . It likewise gives countenance to Edgar's disguise , making that ...
Page x
... Edgar and Cordelia were entirely out of place , and that , far from heightening the distress of the story , as Tate had asserted , they dif- fused a languor over all the scenes from which Lear is absent . But he did not condemn Tate ...
... Edgar and Cordelia were entirely out of place , and that , far from heightening the distress of the story , as Tate had asserted , they dif- fused a languor over all the scenes from which Lear is absent . But he did not condemn Tate ...
Page xii
... Edgar when feign- ing madness are undoubtedly borrowed from this book , 1 while certain other remarks made by him in his rôle of Tom of Bedlam point to a like indebtedness.2 Harsnet's book was entered in the Stationers ' Registers on ...
... Edgar when feign- ing madness are undoubtedly borrowed from this book , 1 while certain other remarks made by him in his rôle of Tom of Bedlam point to a like indebtedness.2 Harsnet's book was entered in the Stationers ' Registers on ...
Page xviii
... Edgar are the " ' Paphlagonian unkind king and his kind son " , whose " pitiful state is recounted in the second book of Sidney's pastoral romance . Though the story is reproduced in all its essentials , it has fur- nished Shakespeare ...
... Edgar are the " ' Paphlagonian unkind king and his kind son " , whose " pitiful state is recounted in the second book of Sidney's pastoral romance . Though the story is reproduced in all its essentials , it has fur- nished Shakespeare ...
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Page 81 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 12 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 4 - The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And, as a stranger to my heart and me, Hold thee, from this, for ever.
Page 12 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects...
Page 75 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
Page 43 - Stain my man's cheeks! — 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. You think, I'll weep; No, I'll not weep: — I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep: — O, fool, I shall go mad!
Page 43 - Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Page 2 - 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 75 - Thou must be patient ; we came crying hither : Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee : mark. Glou. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools : this...
Page 71 - 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...