 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...  THE BOMBAY QUARTERLY REVIEW - Page 380by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Abraham John Valpy, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson - Drama - 1844
...matter and impertinency mix'd ! Reason in madness ! Lear. If thou wilt we«p my fortunes, take rnj 1 know thee well enough ; thy name is Gloster : Thou...first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry : — I will preach to thee ; mark me. Glos. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry,... | |
 | David Curzon - Religion - 1996 - 161 pages
100 original midrashim (short modern commentaries and meditations) on the Bible and a few other ancient texts. | |
 | Mrs Henry Pott - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1997 - 652 pages
...Desque naci llore y cada dia nace porque. ( When I was born I cried, and every day shows why.) Lear. We came crying hither ; Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air We wawl and cry. I'll preach to thee : mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lew. When we are born, we cry that we are... | |
 | James Cunningham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 238 pages
...birth, which is seen as an act of betrayal whereby the infant is thrust into an unsympathetic world: We came crying hither. Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry. (Folio, 4.5.174-76) Lear, then, rages to impose his authority upon those women on whom,... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - Drama - 1997 - 305 pages
...wet?" Lear wonders of that "holy water" that is her sign of his absolution. Tears are man's birthright: "the first time that we smell the air / We wawl and cry." They are the sign of man's humanity: "When we are born, we cry." They are also the sign of his capacity... | |
 | Peter von Matt - Families in literature - 1998 - 445 pages
...déjanté, nous pleurons lors de notre naissance et notre premier souffle est un pitoyable vagissement : the first time that we smell the air, / We wawl and cry . Et : Hlien we are born, uv cry that nv are come / 7c> tlus great stage offools . Et ainsi, de même... | |
 | Susan Bruce - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 192 pages
...at Gloucester's eyes, as if to make sure they are really gone. When he is sure, he recognizes him: If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes; I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester. (4.6.178-9) This picking spiritually relates Lear to Cornwall's and Regan's act in first... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 142 pages
...eyeglasses 171 scurvy politician vile Machiavel 174 matter. . . impertinency sense and nonsense LEAR If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester. Thou must be patient. We came crying hither; Thou know'st, the first time that we smell... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1999 - 599 pages
...('If one must live in accordance with nature'). 209.37 wawling and crying see King Lear, 4.6.180-81: 'the first time that we smell the air/ We wawl and cry'. 210.1-2 devil... and his dam 'the devil and his dam'is a proverbial expression (see ODEP, 179), the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness - Drama - 1908 - 503 pages
...wilt weep my fortuaes, take my eyes. I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester. 175 Thou must he 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. Glou. Alaok, alacb the day 1 Leur, When we are horn, we cry that we are... | |
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