 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1842 - 412 pages
...make Lear reply to his daughters, who had been speaking in the true spirit of modern improvements: "O reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the...nature more than nature needs,, Man's life is cheap as blasts'" There are many other painful instances in these times of that " restless wisdom " which "... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...Lear, who in Act II. Sc. 4, utters that beautiful reflection, " O, reason not the need ! our hasest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's," now proceeds to carry this idea out. Seeing Edgar without clothes, he breaks forth into this sublime... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one? Lear. O! reason not the need; our basest, beggars Arc in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Han's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous , Why, nature needs... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...misapplied, And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 311. 0 reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. °.12. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 313. The friends thou hast... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 311. 0 reason not the need j our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 312. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 313. The friends thou hast... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...individuals, it is desirable that innocent superfluities should be increased among the people at large ; ' O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's ;' and that there bc extended, even to the lowest classes of society, as regards habitation, food,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 818 pages
...doubtless here pregnant with sad truth ; for what are men, if only their bare wants are satisfied ? " О reason not the need ! our basest beggars Are in the...nature needs — Man's life is cheap as beast's." " There are persons,'7 says the universal doctor, " who give to the poor what they would scarcely throw... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 362 pages
...true spirit of modern improvements : " O reason not the need : our basest beggar* Are in the pooreit thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts •." There are many other painful instances in these times of that " restless wisdom" which... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...cannot be dispensed with. [Lear. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous ; Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts' ; King Lear, ii. 4. - necessity Commands me name myself. CortoZamw, iv. 5. Nature hath need... | |
 | William John Birch - 1848 - 574 pages
...better, at thy leisure. When his two daughters tell him he has no Beed of one servant, he gays : — Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts'. An idea of the materialists, and often introduced by Shak- ,' spere. Lear is made to repeat... | |
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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... 
