 Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 158by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
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...reduced to primal need that Lear had invoked earlier in his protest against his daughters' ruthlessness: Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. (3.4.108-10) Indeed, the raving, tattered, incoherent Tom anticipates the image of man in what Thomas... | |
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