King LearChambers, 1881 - 155 pages |
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adjective Alack Albany Antony and Cleopatra better Burgundy comes Cordelia Coriolanus Corn daughters dear death dost thou doth Dover Dr Abbott Duke of Cornwall Edmund Enter EDGAR Enter LEAR Exeunt Exit eyes father fear follow Fool fortune foul fiend France Gent gentleman Gentlemen of Verona give Gloster gods GONERIL grace Hamlet hath hear heart heaven hence Henry Henry VI hither honour Julius Cæsar King Lear knave lady lord Macbeth madam master means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice nature noble noun nuncle OSWALD Othello passage phrases pity poor pray Prithee Regan Richard Richard III SCENE sense servant Shake Shakespeare shew Sirrah sister speak speare stand sword tell Tempest thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast traitor trumpet Twelfth Night verb villain word occurs
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Page 91 - 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 me. Glo. Alack, alack the day! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 53 - 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 63 - 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. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman; keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
Page 19 - 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 111 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
Page 61 - But I will punish home : No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on : I will endure : In such a night as this ! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,— O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 57 - Spit, fire! spout rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness, I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription...
Page 19 - ... 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: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Page 97 - Lear. Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not. If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong. You have some cause, they have not. Cor. No cause, no cause.
Page 96 - 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.