 Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !...  King Lear - Page 60by William Shakespeare - 1909 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eric Bentley - 1987 - 380 pages
...Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility. Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her! (1.4.297-303) I dwell now on the primitive elements partly because scholars have indeed... | |
 | George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 pages
...understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. (Macbeth. 1.3.43-45) 217 (b 1) If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that...may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her. (Km* Lear, 1.4.281-sj) (c,) If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity a while,... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 pages
...Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility! Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her!14 Bradley's description of Lear's behaviour as hubris is too simple. For instance, Lear's speech... | |
 | James P. Lusardi, June Schlueter - 1991 - 260 pages
...Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility; Dry up in her the organs of increase. And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 pages
...daughter. (1.1.115-19) Later, Lear asks the gods to "dry up" Goneril's "organs of increase" or else Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...convey sterility, Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring 235 A babe to honour her. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...drink and thy whore, And keep in-a-door, And thou shall have more Than two tens to a score. (I, iv) 72 If she must teem. Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth. With cadent tears fret channels... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pages
...turn attack her, with the serpent's tooth that is filial ingratitude. Into her womb convey sterility, Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility, 245 Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her...child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. 250 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility, Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her...child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. 270 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels... | |
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