| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Reg. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the...superfluous ; Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man9s life is cheap 2 as beast's. Thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...in 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...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... | |
| Henry Taylor - 1853 - 232 pages
...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 - 420 pages
...thunder-bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove. THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE FEW. O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. LEAR ON THE INGRATITUDE OF HIS DAUGHTERS. You see me here, yon gods, a poor old man, As full of grief... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...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 the...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... | |
| 1853 - 758 pages
...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 the...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 pages
...To follow in a house where twice so many Have a command to' tend youî Reg. What need one ? Lear. О s heart " Hadst thou but bid beware, then he had spoke, And hearing him thy power had lost his p mere than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady : If only to go warm were gorgeous,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...than as meansoFKIs sufferings, and aggravations of his daughter's ingratitude. Ib. Lear's speech : — 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous, Ae. Observe that the tranquillity which follows the first stunning of the blow permits Lear to reason.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...the very reason for her frightful conclusion— Say, you have wrong'd her ! Ib. Lear's speech :— O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous, Ac. Observe that the tranquillity which follows the first stunning of the blow permits Lear to reason.... | |
| Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - 1996 - 312 pages
...distinction seems implicit in Lear's "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 beast's" (2.4.265-8). The contrast between superfluities and necessities comes from canon law, which distinguishes... | |
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