 O, reason not the need ! our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap, as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous...  King Lear. Romeo and Juliet - Página 75por William Shakespeare - 1841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 páginas
...strange, That can make vile things precious. KL iii. 2. Necessity will make us all forsworn. LL i. 1. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. KL ii. 4 But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience : patience 1 need. KL ii. 4. I... | |
 | Henry Taylor - 1853 - 232 páginas
...five followers ? ' said Goneril. ' What need of one ? ' added Regan. But the King made answer — ' Oh reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the...than Nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's ! ' The plea of ' supporting the station to which Providence has called us,' is not unmeaning, though... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 páginas
...sense ; and do suppose, What hath been cannot bed. 11 — i. 1. 287. Nature content with little. 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 34 — ii. 4. 288. Nature, its weakness. Strange it is, That nature must compel us to lament Our most... | |
 | 1853 - 758 páginas
...lived in the stirring days of Queen Elizabeth, most appositely says, in reference to riches, — " O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs." Applicable as these lines are to Lord Compton's case, they remain an axiom for all future generations,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 páginas
...reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature mere The destinies will curse thee for this stroke ; They bid thee crop a weed, thou pluck'st Why,nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But for true need,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 504 páginas
...misapplied, And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 311- O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature nesds, Man's life is cheap as beast's. °-12. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...eheeks, through penury and pine, Were shrunk into his jaws, as he did never dine. Spenaer's Fairy Queen O, reason not the need, our basest beggars Are in...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is eheap as beast's. Shake, Lear Poor naked wretehes, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 páginas
...major development of the theme of probing into the state of nothing is achieved, in a later reply: O, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's, (u. iv. 264-7) Here Lear passionately asserts to the uncomprehending Goneril and Regan the absolute... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - 1996 - 422 páginas
...one superfluous thing becoming the other. With the addition of Regan's unnecessarily gorgeous robes ("If only to go warm were gorgeous, / Why, nature...gorgeous wears't, / Which scarcely keeps thee warm," II.iv.268-70), clothes rank as the play's representative superfluous thing. Practically useless - unable... | |
 | Judy Kronenfeld - 1998 - 404 páginas
...and the Anti-luxuria Tradition. O, reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs,...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.8 (2.4.264-70) On the one hand, Lear's speech resembles the anti-hctHria arguments of Seneca in... | |
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