 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.  The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 180by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Susan L. Mizruchi - 2001 - 300 pages
...passing or the passing of a loved one. We may ask, like King Lear with the dead Cordelia in his arms, Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? Yet we may be consoled that, though we pass away, the sun rises, and the sun sets, and the earth abides... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 pages
...But he breaks off when Lear speaks over the body of Cordelia. Lear asks the unanswerable question: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? (lines 280-281) He howls out the word 'never' five times and he calls on those around him to 'look'... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 2001 - 380 pages
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 | Pietro Barcellona - 2001 - 268 pages
...Cordelia morta, re Lear non piange la mone di un essere vivente, ma quella morte, la morte della figlia: «Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?». È solo perché può ricevere (dalla psyché) un'identità e un senso, che il bios acquista un valore,... | |
 | Carol Chillington Rutter - 2001 - 244 pages
...interrogation of existential absurdity contained no rage, just a reedy-voiced geriatric bewilderment - 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?' As 'Never, never, never, never, never' faded into silence, the rocking stopped. Just as violently,... | |
 | 1984 - 476 pages
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 | 1967 - 894 pages
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 | George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...The death of Cordelia is the last and most horrihle of all the horrihle incongruities I have noticed: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no hreath at all? (v. iii. 308) We rememher: 'Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, the gods themselves dirow... | |
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