 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round ! 37 — ii. 1. 614 Nature content with little. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 34 — ii. 4. 615 Plea of adversity. If ever you have look'd or) better days ; If ever been where bells... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1839 - 390 pages
...poorest things superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts : thou art a lady,— If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wearest, Which scarcely keeps thee warm." ACT II, Scene iv. The old cobbler, who lives opposite, has... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round ! 37 — ii. 1. 614 Nature content with little. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more thaa nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 34 — ii. 4. 615 Plea of adversity, If ever you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 312 pages
...and twenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Re. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need ; our...— You Heavens, give me that patience, patience I You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age ; wretched in both ! If it be you... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...old from such affairs are only freed, Which vig'rous yonth and strength of body need. (Denham.) 0, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the...gorgeous wear'st, ' Which scarcely keeps thee warm. (Shaksp. King Lear.) At all events he is not thorough bred in his appearance : he lacks the senatorias... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...need you five and twenty, ten, or five,* To follow in a house ? Began. What need one ? King Lear. Oh, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. King Lear. Act ii. Soene 4. KIND INTENTIONS APPRECIATED. Theseus. . . . Never anything can be amiss,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1842 - 412 pages
...make Lear reply to his daughters, who had been speaking in the true spirit of modern improvements: "O reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in...nature more than nature needs,, Man's life is cheap as blasts'" There are many other painful instances in these times of that " restless wisdom " which "... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...Lear, who in Act II. Sc. 4, utters that beautiful reflection, " O, reason not the need ! our hasest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's," now proceeds to carry this idea out. Seeing Edgar without clothes, he breaks forth into this sublime... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...my lord : What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one ? Lear....gorgeous, Why .nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear's!, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.— But for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...my lord : What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one? Lear. O...Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why,nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'ct. Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But for true need,... | |
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O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... 
