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The British Essayists: Adventurer - Page 93
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Religio Poetæ: A Trilogy

Henry B. Michard - 1860 - 134 pages
...the old king assimilates and identifies the associations of age in himself and the object addressed : If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience,...old, Make it your cause : send down, and take my part ! Neither lias MILTON, nurtured in ancient lore and in the Hebrew writings, and by his blindness led...
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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakespeare

Henry Reed - 1860 - 474 pages
...identifies his own old age with that of the heavens: " 0 heavens ! If you do love old men, if yonr sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause; send down and take my part!" His spirit sank within him at the appearance of Goneril: a deadlier chill seizes upon it at a worse...
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...servant ? Regan, I have good hope Thou didst not know on't. — Who comes here? O heavens, Enter GONEBIL. ether ; so as during these two yeeres, it had beene all one to say, one is gone to h (*) First folio inserts, you. a Tky tender-hefted nature— ] Tender-hefted is a very doubtful expression;...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...servant? Regan, I have good hope Thou didst not know ori't. — Who comes here? О heavens, Enter GONEBIL. & (») First folio inserts, you. d Tkg tender-hefted nature— ] Tfnder-bfjled is a very doubtful expression;...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Adapted for Family Reading

William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1861 - 914 pages
...Regan, I have good hope [heavens ! Thou didst not know of it. — Who comes here ? O Enter GONEEIL. n !— Art not asham'd to look upon this beard ? — O, Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand ? Gon,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...oft. — Who comes here ? O heavens, Enter GONEBIL. If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow I obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part ! — Art not ashamed to look upon this beard ? — [To GONERIL. O, Regan,wilt thou take her by the...
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Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal

George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...but especially that sudden, agonized appeal made by the forsaken, aged king to the heavens:— " Oh, Heavens ! If you do love old men, if your sweet sway...old, Make it your cause. Send down and take my part," &c. As an illustration of the profoundest pathos, the sudden retrospective thought of Macduff, in the...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 60

1863 - 568 pages
...but especially that sudden, agonized appeal made by the forsaken, aged king to the heavens : " Oh, Heavens ! If you do love old men, if your sweet sway...old, Make it your cause. Send down and take my part," etc. As an illustration of the profoundest pathos, the sudden retrospective thought of Macduff, in...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1972 - 356 pages
...grace ? LEAR Who stocked my servant ? Regan, I have good hope Thou didst not know on't. Enter Gonerill Who comes here ? O heavens ! If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old, Make it your cause! Send down and take my part! (To Gonerill) Art not ashamed...
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Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance ...

Stephen Greenblatt - 1988 - 226 pages
...the spokesman for the dismissal is the villainous Edmund. Lear appeals almost constantly to the gods: O Heavens! If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old, Make it your cause; send down, and take my part. (2.4.189-92) But his appeals...
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