 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....  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 61by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
 | John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - 1996 - 260 pages
...Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are That bid the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. (3.4.26-36)'... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...realizations take on generalizing and critical power: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are. That hide the pelting of this pitiless storm. How shall your...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 pages
...hovel. In, boy; go first. — You houseless poverty — Nay, get thee in. I'll pray and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them... | |
 | Charles Olson - 1997 - 492 pages
...in the storm scene senses it, but Gloucester blind speaks it: "I stumbled when I saw." Lear's words: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...he explains, "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep." This is his prayer: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm....these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, Pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,... | |
 | Andrew Wachtel - 1998 - 328 pages
..."Lir" — that is, Shakespeare's King Lear. The line occurs in Act III, scene 4 of the tragedy: [LEAR] Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 pages
...Nay, get thee in; I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bid the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. (3.4.19-34) Here you have the power to strike... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 212 pages
...help if they were sick or pregnant or addicted, he thought often of the lines in which King Lear says, "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That...raggedness, defend you / From seasons such as these?" He never forgot how once when he had used them in one of his readings at the Apollonian, some octogenarian... | |
 | Michael J. Buckley, SJ - 1999 - 254 pages
...the majority of human beings — letters came with the terrible self-reproach of Lear upon the heath: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are. That bide...such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this!6 Much of the effort of the Society of Jesus — its college and university commitments, its literary... | |
 | Marshall Berman - 1999 - 300 pages
...through right now. When he was in power he never noticed, but now he stretches his vision to take them in: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That...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,... | |
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