 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...person (as people in hospital after a breakdown sometimes are). You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. Is he really angry that he's been taken out of the grave? Is he still on a 'wheel of fire'? How perceptive... | |
 | Tom Kleffmann - 2004 - 178 pages
...auf ein glühendes Feuerrad gebunden, auf dem ihm die Tränen wie geschmolzenes Blei glühen (IV,7): „Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound / Upon...that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead". Damit taucht ein Purgatoriumsbild auf. Jedoch wird dieser Bezug wie der auf den seligen Geist im Himmel... | |
 | Fleming Rutledge - 2004 - 386 pages
...Act IV, scene vii, the mad Lear says to his devoted daughter Cordelia, whom he does not recognize, "Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead." Clearly this is an image of perdition, where tears of repentance do not avail. Sam's Temptation They... | |
 | Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pages
...clearly even while mistaking the visible world. Lear first says: You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molton lead. The Arden edition explains that the wheel of fire is from Medieval legends and apocryphal... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
...the world's pain so easily. On waking from madness, he says, You do me wrong to take me out o' th" grave: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like moulten lead.45 (4.7.44-47) The words imply confusion about where hell is. The "wheel of fire" suggests... | |
 | Radhouan Ben Amara - 2004 - 148 pages
...grave and takes it for a belly; but here again he is excluded: You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire . . . That mine own tears Do scold like molten lead. (IV, vii, 45-48) These lines are a disguised and symptomatic recognition of... | |
 | Kenneth S. Jackson - 2005 - 324 pages
...momentarily escaped his madness and suffering, Lear says famously, "You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave. / Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound...fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (4.6.46-49). Bosola tells the Duchess in her brief interim between tortures, "Thou art a box of worm... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pages
...CORDELIA. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? LEAR. You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. CORDELIA. Sir, do you know me? LEAR. You are a spirit, I know: when did you die? CORDELIA. Still, still... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...that the torture will be continued after death. When Lear thinks he has died he cries to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (IV.vii.46-8) Another group of images is concerned with sight and blindness. As Professor Heilman has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...CORDELIA How does my royal lord? How fares your Majesty? LEAR You do me wrong to take me out o'th'grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. CORDELIA Sir, do you know me? LEAR You are a spirit, I know; when did you die? CORDELIA Still, still,... | |
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How does my royal lord ? How fares your majesty ? Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave : Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. 
