 | Raymond Rhinehart - 2000 - 220 pages
...architecture that is not simply functional makes us confront this question. What is the purpose of ornament? Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. —William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act ll, scene ii Guyof Hall B2. Guyol Hall W illiam Brrryman Srott;... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - 2001 - 360 pages
...arrant whore, / Ne'er turns the key to the poor" (2.4.51-52). Beggars are but a step above beasts: Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous....nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts. (2.4.266-69) Talk of famine recurs: "he that keeps nor crust nor crumb" ( 1.4.195 ). The Fool,... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 36 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...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Act n Sc iv 18 Lear defies the storm Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...means of his 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, <&c. Observe that the tranquillity which follows'the first stunning of the blow permits Lear to reason.... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 pages
...Regan's part to directly confront her father, which contrasts with the behaviour of Goneril. Quote O reason not the need! Our basest beggars/ Are in the poorest thing superfluous. (Act II, Sc. iv, lines 257-258) Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow,/ You cataracts and... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...offices of nature, bond of childhood" better than Goneril (II.iv.181). Lear cries out to Regan: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (II.iv.267-70) Lear, contending with the storm, calls upon it to "Crack Nature's moulds, all germains... | |
 | Amo Sulaiman - 2002 - 232 pages
...for you, Virus. Because, you can't escape your situation of being free. It's like King Lear—'Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs.'" Belinda wanted to stop the conversation from going on any further. She looked around in the restaurant,... | |
 | Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 pages
...time /Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more' (4.4.34). King Lear registers a similar complaint: 'Allow not nature more than nature needs /Man's life is cheap as beast's' (2.4.267). The advancing Birnam Wood evokes, in a dramatically accelerated form, the mindless relentless... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...4. Already, just before going out into the storm, Lear replies to Regan's 'What need one?' with O ! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : (n, iv, 266-7) but while this may to some extent announce his later capacity for generalizing his... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...Goneril and Regan press their advantage, and ask why he needs any knights at all. Lear bursts out, O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Where does such a response come from? It shows an awareness of the human condition, a philosophy that... | |
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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... 
