 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 390 pages
...time. Lear. How 's that? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. /.•"i•. O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! Enter Gentleman. How now ! are the horses ready ? Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. Fool. She... | |
 | 1857 - 848 pages
...Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been wise." And Lear's passionate invocation— " Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven '. Keep me in temper : I would not be mad." Lear arrives before Gloster's castle, to which Regan, and her husband Cornwall, immediately repaired... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...time. Lear. How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. Lear. 0 let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! Enter Gentleman. How now ! Are the horses ready ? Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. Fool. She... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...thy time. Lear. How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. Lear. Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. How now ! Are the horses ready ? ' — yet I CAN TELL what I can tell.] So the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...of him had royalized his state, may be some little excuse for Albany's weakness. Ib. sc. 5. Lear. O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper 1 I would not be mad 1— The mind's own anticipation of madness ! The deepest tragic notes are often... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...time. Lear. How 's that? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst )een wise. Lear. O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper: I would not be mad! — Enter Gentleman. How now! Are the horses ready? Gentleman. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. ^Fool.... | |
 | Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1860 - 796 pages
...anguish, prayerfully, and in accents of wild and frenzied despair, to ejaculate with King Lear, " 0, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven ! Keep me in temper, I would not be mad ! " This agonizing consciousness of the presence of mor* In a conversation between the stoic Damasippus... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 836 pages
...time. LEAB. How's that ? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old, before* thou hadst been wise. LEAB. O, tender Ѐ . ! — Enter Gentleman. How now ! Are the horses ready ? GENT. Heady, my lord. LEAB. Come, boy. FOOL.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...time. LEAH. How's that ? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old, before* thou hadst been wise. LEAH. O, to my mother. — O, heart, lose not thy nature ; let not ever The soul of Nero ! — Enter Gentleman. • How now ! Are the horses ready ? GENT. Beady, my lord. LEAH. Come, boy.... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1860 - 756 pages
...reminds him that he should not have been old before he was wise, he says, apparently abstracted : " Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not bo mad !" It is one of the most rare things in the world to find a man decidedly insane, and yet conscious... | |
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O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. 
