 O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. 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,...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 451by William Shakespeare - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Marjorie L. DeVault - 1991 - 288 pages
...Crossette, "Official Toll Reaches 92,000 in Bangladesh Cyclone," New York Times, May 4, 1991, p. 1 . vH O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (King Lear, II, iv. 267-70) Regan and Goneril are, of course, women, two of the most... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' 50 0 reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1995 - 1198 pages
...his daughters to explain why he needs even one bodyguard in his regal retirement, he cries out: "Oh Reason not the need. Our basest beggars are in the...Allow not nature more than nature needs. Man's life is cheap as beasts." In other words, need is not the measure of human dignity. Surely, we can get by with... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...major development of the theme of probing into the state of nothing is achieved, in a later reply: O, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's, (u. iv. 264-7) Here Lear passionately asserts to the uncomprehending Goneril and... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 pages
...he needs, even his toughness is penetrated by the sense of his helplessness; and yet he grinds on: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...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... | |
 | Jean Baudrillard - 1998 - 228 pages
...precedence in terms of value over accumulation and appropriation (even if it does not precede them in time). 'O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in...not nature more than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's/ writes Shakespeare in King Lear [Act II, Scene iv]. In other words, one of the fundamental... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...unnecessary letter! 10319 KingLear Down, thou climbing sorrow! Thy element's below. 10320 King Lear 0 ne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging ......The Entertainment at Althrope This is Mab. the Mist cheap as beast's. 10321 KingLear Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pages
...I'll go with thee; Thy Fifty yet, do's double Five and Twenty, And thou art twice her Love. GONERILL Hear me, my Lord, What need you Five and Twenty, Ten,...follow in a House where twice so many Have a Command t'attend you? REGAN What need one? LEAR Blood, Fire! hear - Leaprosies and bluest Plagues! Room, room... | |
 | Guido Pincione, H. Spector - 2000 - 196 pages
...contains an implicit commitment to action. But then the comparative ease of getting the needs19 Cf. "Lear. 'O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars...not nature more than nature needs. / man's life is cheap as beast's." William Shakespeare. King Lear, II. 4. 20 CLS discussions of these matters show... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...five-and-twenty, ten, or five, 260 To follow in a house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? REGAN What need one? LEAR O! reason not the need; our basest...superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, 265 Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature... | |
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