 | Charles Buxton - Philanthropists - 1848 - 652 pages
...; of the pain of being restricted in it ; these lines will recall my feelings, ' Take physic, pump, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them.'" The following are extracts from his diary: — "November 1. 1817. " One cannot pass over from Dover... | |
 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...the truth of nakedness: "Poor naked wretches O, I have ta'en /Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp, / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,...superflux to them / And show the heavens more just." Here, we feel, Lear strips himself of the remnants of his royal garment. And then enters Edgar, who... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 282 pages
...houseless poverty', cries Lear on the heath, O, I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. That...superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (3.4.32-6) And Gloucester, blind and helpless, echoes this conclusion: Heavens deal so still! Let the... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...raggedness, defend you From reasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That...superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. (III. ^.28-36) Later in the play, Lear has occasion to reflect back on his harrowing and on the language... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That...superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. (in. iv. 28) cause of thunder?' (in. iv. 160). Such is Lear's tempestuous purgatory. The storm is often... | |
 | Tracy B. Strong - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 236 pages
...to mind "Lear's prayer," just before he goes mad. OI have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, that...the superflux to them And show the heavens more just Act ffl, iv, lines 32-36. See Stanley Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say?, last chapter 55. Human here... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...pelting of this pitiless storm," and exclaims: O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That...superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (III.iv.28-29, 32-36) And he looks at the naked Edgar and says: Why, thou wert better in thy grave... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,...shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.13 It has not escaped notice that Gloucester expresses similar sentiments when he hands his purse... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - Art - 2002 - 410 pages
...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That...shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more iust. (Ш, 4, 28-36) On the other hand, Lear keeps his identification with the 'all-powerful'. Not... | |
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Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this... 
