Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 22
Page xii
... heavenly bodies might one day fall from their appointed orbits . To save in some degree the honour of human nature , Shakspeare never wishes his spectators to forget that the story takes place in a dreary and barbarous age : he lays ...
... heavenly bodies might one day fall from their appointed orbits . To save in some degree the honour of human nature , Shakspeare never wishes his spectators to forget that the story takes place in a dreary and barbarous age : he lays ...
Page 19
... Heaven and earth ! -Edmund , seek him out ; wind me into him , I pray you ; frame the business after your own wisdom : I would unstate myself to be in a due reso- lution . ' Edm . I will seek him , sir , presently ; convey the business ...
... Heaven and earth ! -Edmund , seek him out ; wind me into him , I pray you ; frame the business after your own wisdom : I would unstate myself to be in a due reso- lution . ' Edm . I will seek him , sir , presently ; convey the business ...
Page 20
... heavenly compulsion ; knaves , thieves , and treachers , by spherical predominance ; drunkards , liars , and adulterers , by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in , by a divine thrusting on : : 1 an ...
... heavenly compulsion ; knaves , thieves , and treachers , by spherical predominance ; drunkards , liars , and adulterers , by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in , by a divine thrusting on : : 1 an ...
Page 38
... heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! Enter Gentleman . How now ! are the horses ready ? Gent . Ready , my lord . Lear . Come , boy . [ Exeunt . ' To take't again perforce ! ] Lear perhaps here refers to Goneril's threat ...
... heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! Enter Gentleman . How now ! are the horses ready ? Gent . Ready , my lord . Lear . Come , boy . [ Exeunt . ' To take't again perforce ! ] Lear perhaps here refers to Goneril's threat ...
Page 51
... heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun ! 3 1 Rubbed . ] Impeded . A rub , in a bowling alley , is an obstacle that may hinder or turn aside the ball . In Richard II . , iii . 4 , when playing at bowls is proposed , the queen says ...
... heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun ! 3 1 Rubbed . ] Impeded . A rub , in a bowling alley , is an obstacle that may hinder or turn aside the ball . In Richard II . , iii . 4 , when playing at bowls is proposed , the queen says ...
Common terms and phrases
Alack ALBANY arms art thou Attasked banished brother Burgundy canst Childe Rowland Cordelia Corn daughters dear death dost thou doth Dover Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Editor's Hamlet Edmund Enter EDGAR Enter GLOSTER Enter KENT Enter LEAR Exit eyes father Flibbertigibbet follow Fool fortune foul fiend France Gent gentleman give GLOSTER's Castle gods GONERIL grace hath hear heart hither honour Julius Cæsar KING LEAR knave lady Lear's letter look lord Macbeth madam master means MERCHANT OF VENICE nature night noble nuncle o'er OSWALD Pelican daughters pity Plutarch poor pray Prithee Regan SCENE seek Servants Shakspeare Shakspeare's shalt shame sirrah sister slave speak stand sword tell thee there's thine things thou art thou dost thou hast traitor trumpet villain word
Popular passages
Page 122 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 66 - You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both, If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 7 - Good my lord , You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands , if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him , half my care and duty : Sure , 1 shall never marry like my sisters , To love my father all.
Page 100 - Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd ? A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate ! have you madded.
Page 19 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Page 5 - Tell me, my daughters (Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Page 140 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Page 114 - em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 7 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 115 - 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 fools; This...