 | Fleming Rutledge - 2004 - 386 pages
...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 of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead." Clearly this is an image of perdition, where tears of repentance do not avail.... | |
 | Radhouan Ben Amara - 2004 - 148 pages
...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... | |
 | Jason Hepple, Laura Sutton - 2004 - 252 pages
...illuminates this contemporary position that affects us all. The psychotherapist had better be prepared. but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire. that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. References 1King Lear. 4.7.461 Adelman. J. t19921 Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies... | |
 | Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | Tom Kleffmann - 2004 - 178 pages
...gebunden, auf dem ihm die Tränen wie geschmolzenes Blei glühen (IV,7): „Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead". Damit taucht ein Purgatoriumsbild auf. Jedoch wird dieser Bezug wie der auf... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...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 of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (IV.vii.46-8) Another group of images is concerned with sight and blindness.... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pages
...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 a wheel of 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...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 of 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?... | |
 | Kenneth S. Jackson - 2005 - 324 pages
...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 / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (4.6.46-49). Bosola tells the Duchess in her brief interim between tortures,... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 pages
...reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, And what remains is bestial. [Othello II iii 264] / am bound upon a wheel of fire That mine own tears do scald like molten lead. [King Lear IV vii 46] O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. [Hamlet III... | |
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tis fittest. Cor. 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. 
