 | Dante Alighieri, Dante - 2005 - 140 pages
...Italica, 59 (1982): pp. 3-15. 11 This image, familiar to English-speaking readers from Shakespeare's King Lear ('When we are born, we cry that we are come / to this great stage of fools'), has its roots in the apocryphal Book of Wisdom (7. 3), and is also found in Pliny's... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 2005 - 144 pages
...Mundi, with whose favorite illustration of man's miseries it closes: "We came crying hither. . . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools." A similar point must be made respecting the relation of character to action in Shakespeare,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...crying hither; Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air, King Lear 133 We wawl and cry . . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (I V.vi. 179-84) When we next see Lear he is awakening from a drugged sleep. The Doctor... | |
 | Baron Wormser - 2006 - 222 pages
...assassinations. Here was another person in the world. English major that I was, I thought of Lear's "When we are born we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools." And here was another sunrise. Craig and his family had driven back down the road.... | |
 | John Albert Murley, Sean D. Sutton - 2006 - 280 pages
...After a lifetime of role-playing and forcing others to play roles, Lear is reduced to the view that "When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools" (King Lear, IV.vi. 184-85). Antonio, another melancholic, childless bachelor who stands... | |
 | Sam Clark, Brent McKibben - 2006 - 182 pages
...of the wormhole. My cruiser glides toward destiny, a spiraling colorful, salvation. Godspeed. Plays "When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools." William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) "I passionately hate the idea of being with it,... | |
 | Martin Lings - 2006 - 228 pages
...Thou knows't the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry. I will preach to thee: mark . . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (IV, 6, 183-87) The reentry of Cordelia means a reversion to the normal order of things... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 260 pages
...know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl108 and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark. Gloucester Alack, alack the day! Lear When we are born, we cry that we are come i So To this great stage of fools. This a good block. loy It were a delicate1 1" stratagem, to shoe... | |
 | Anthony David Nuttall - 2007 - 196 pages
...poetic high-points, anthology pieces, ranging from Jaques's 'All the world's a stage'1 through Lear's 'When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools',2 to Macbeth's 'tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'.3... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...the first time that we smell the air296 We wawl297 and cry. I will preach to thee: mark. Gloucester. Alack, alack the day! Lear. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. This'298 a good block.299 185 It were a delicate300 stratagem, to shoe A troop of horse... | |
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Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of... 
