On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear - we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms... The Etonian - Sida 3381821Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 676 sidor
...storms; in the aberrations of his reason, we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodised from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth. at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks, or tones, to do with... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1881 - 892 sidor
...impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice...immethodized from the ordinary purposes of life, but ex erting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1881 - 248 sidor
...the impotence of rage; while we read it; we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice...we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodised from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it... | |
| Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 sidor
...the impotence of rage : while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice...but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - 248 sidor
...case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on ; even as he himself neglects it. sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of...but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks, or tones, to do with... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1882 - 460 sidor
...the impotence of rage. While we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear : we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice...purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as " the wind bloweth where it listeth," at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks, or... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - 284 sidor
...impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice...immethodized from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting ils powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind.... | |
| Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 212 sidor
...are Lear, we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which bullies the malice of daughters an storms; in the aberrations of his reason we discover...but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1016 sidor
...we are Lear. — we are in his mind ; we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of his daughters and storms : in the aberrations of his reason,...we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodised from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting itself, as the wind blows where it listelh,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1883 - 584 sidor
...his mind j we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of his daughters and storms : iu the aberrations of his reason, we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodised from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting itself, as the wind blows where it listeth,... | |
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