 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 54by William Shakespeare - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Roe - 1998 - 344 pages
...identification with 'houseless poverty' against injustice and arbitrary power: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are. That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? (1n. iv. 28-32) It is the thought of a pitiless, famishing season such as this that the milder, fruited... | |
 | 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...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. 10. The original poem has no title.... | |
 | 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...physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. (3.4.19-34) Here you have the power to strike right to the heart of modern concerns about our responsibility... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - 1999 - 196 pages
...as Everyman is reminded, to share his superfluous wealth with the homeless, starving and unclothed: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggeaness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic,... | |
 | 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...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!... | |
 | Alexander Welsh - 2000 - 252 pages
...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?...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.1 In his extremity Shakespeare's... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pages
...Lear's wits begin to turn, and with this turning comes a new view: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the Heavens more just. (3.4.28-36) Previously (as we have... | |
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