.* No, no, no life : Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? O, thou wilt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you, undo this button.* Thank you, sir. The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 154by William Shakespeare - 1806Full view - About this book
| William Lowes Rushton - 1858 - 60 pages
...matter!" Shakespeare, however, makes use of the same expression in another part of King Lear. LEAH. " Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir, Do you...Look on her, look, her lips. Look there, look there ! [Dies. Act 5, Scene 3. Moreover, such expressions, intended to describe the anguish of the " o'er... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...— to this OREAT decay] Meaning Lear. The 4tos. omit " great." Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd 7 ! No, no, no life : 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pages
...countermanded, and Lear dies broken-hearted, lamenting over her. " LEAR. And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat,...— Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir." He dies, and indeed we feel the truth of what Kent says on the occasion — " Vex not his ghost : 0,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...and all foes The cup 3 of their deservings. — O ! see, see ! Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd ! 4 No, no, no life : Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! — ' Pray you, undo this button:5 thank... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...virtue, and ail foes The cup of their deservings. — O, see, see ! Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life : Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou '1t come no more. Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you undo this button : Thank... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! — Fray w ! — [Dies. EDO. He faints ! — My lord ! my lord ! — KKNT. Break, heart, I pr'ythee, break ! EDO.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...virtue, and all Foes The cup of their deservings. — O, see, see ! LEAB. And my poor fool is haug'd ! re's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abomina ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you, undo this button : thank... | |
| Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pages
...toward Goneril, so the specific figures structuring it are not all the same: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! 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.... | |
| Charles H. Frey - 1999 - 228 pages
...example, Lear responds to the death of his beloved daughter, Cordelia: And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life? 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.... | |
| Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...252 sd). The grief-stricken father helplessly cradles his beloved daughter, 'dead as earth' (257): 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, | And...all. O thou wilt come no more. | Never, never, never' (301-3). The agony of Lear's grief and the gratuitousness of Cordelia's death stupefy the onlookers,... | |
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