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" 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... "
Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der englischen Sprache für die Deutschen - Page 427
by H. M. Melford - 1841 - 448 pages
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...unnecessary letter! 10319 KingLear Down, thou climbing sorrow! Thy element's below. 10320 King Lear onne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging...at Althrope This is Mab. the Mistress-Fairy That do 10321 KingLear Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout...
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Société de Consommation: Ses Mythes, Ses Structures

Jean Baudrillard - 1998 - 226 pages
...in terms of value over accumulation and appropriation (even if it does not precede them in time). 'O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in the...than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's/ writes Shakespeare in King Lear [Act II, Scene iv]. In other words, one of the fundamental problems...
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Shakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law: The Art of Punishment

William M. Hawley - 1998 - 232 pages
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The Uses of Literacy

Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...had been guilty of an insensitive affront to human dignity . . . 'Oh, reason not the need ;.../... Allow not nature more than nature needs,/ Man's life is cheap as beast's.' We may understand why working-class people often seem not 'oncoming' to social workers, seem evasive...
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Shakespeare Studies, Volume 26

Leeds Barroll - 1998 - 440 pages
...(Lear only briefly) the shapes they were. More critically at stake is the meaning of Lear's outcry, "O, reason not the need! our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous" (2.4.26465). 2 The cry offers a distinction between human subsistence and the overplus that makes someone...
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The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 412 pages
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The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 416 pages
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The Library Shakespeare: Comedies ; Vol. 2, Tragedies ; Vol. 3, Historical plays

William Shakespeare - 2004 - 1458 pages
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Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies

Philippa Berry - 1999 - 197 pages
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Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture

Gail Weiss, Honi Fern Haber - 1999 - 298 pages
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