And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes original and selected ... - Sida 505efter William Shakespeare - 1843Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Tim Fountain - 2007 - 132 sidor
...see that Cordelia loves him - causes him to destroy the thing he most loves and needs in the world. 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no GETTING STARTED breath at all?' Lear incredulously asks over his daughter's dead body. The answer is... | |
 | Rita Felski - 2008 - 368 sidor
...for their sport" — but that the justified questioning of human beings in innocent agony (Job) — "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life? And thou no breath at all?" — is doomed to remain unanswered. Blasphemy, a fundamentally religious mode, characterizes key motions... | |
 | Gerard Woodward - 2007 - 290 sidor
...carrying her as a baby - "thy crying self - on to the boat and into exile. Think of Lear and Cordelia - "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?" Think even of Titus Andronicus and Lavinia . . .' The students nodded thoughtfully. 12 Afterwards Aldous... | |
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