Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter |
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... arm . Of my more fierce endeavour : I have seen drunkards Do more than this in sport . - Father , father ! Stop , stop ! No help ? Enter GLOSTER and Servants with torches . Glo . Now , Edmund , where's the villain ? Edm . Here stood he ...
... arm . Of my more fierce endeavour : I have seen drunkards Do more than this in sport . - Father , father ! Stop , stop ! No help ? Enter GLOSTER and Servants with torches . Glo . Now , Edmund , where's the villain ? Edm . Here stood he ...
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... arm : And when he saw my best alarumed spirits , Bold in the quarrel's right , roused to the encounter , Or whether gasted by the noise I made , Full suddenly he fled . Glo . Let him fly far ; Not in this land shall he remain uncaught ...
... arm : And when he saw my best alarumed spirits , Bold in the quarrel's right , roused to the encounter , Or whether gasted by the noise I made , Full suddenly he fled . Glo . Let him fly far ; Not in this land shall he remain uncaught ...
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... arms ! What's the matter here ? Corn . Keep peace , upon your lives ; He dies that strikes again ! What is the matter ? Reg . The messengers from our sister and the king ! Corn . What is your difference ? speak . Osw . I am scarce in ...
... arms ! What's the matter here ? Corn . Keep peace , upon your lives ; He dies that strikes again ! What is the matter ? Reg . The messengers from our sister and the king ! Corn . What is your difference ? speak . Osw . I am scarce in ...
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... arm an armilla , or iron ring , about four inches long ; they could not get it off . They wore about their necks a great horn of an ox , in a string or bawdrick , which , when they came to a ... arms Pins , SCENE III . 3383 KING LEAR . 53.
... arm an armilla , or iron ring , about four inches long ; they could not get it off . They wore about their necks a great horn of an ox , in a string or bawdrick , which , when they came to a ... arms Pins , SCENE III . 3383 KING LEAR . 53.
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... arms Pins , wooden pricks , nails , sprigs of rosemary ; And with this horrible object , from low farms , Poor pelting villages , ' sheep - cotes and mills , Sometime with lunatic bans , sometime with prayers , Enforce their charity ...
... arms Pins , wooden pricks , nails , sprigs of rosemary ; And with this horrible object , from low farms , Poor pelting villages , ' sheep - cotes and mills , Sometime with lunatic bans , sometime with prayers , Enforce their charity ...
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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
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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...