 | 1814 - 75 pages
...absolutely requires for a subsistence, destitute of every enjoyment which can alone render life desirable* " Allow not nature more than nature needs, " Man's life is cheap as beasts." King Lear, 11, 12. Admitting, for a moment, the practicability of limiting a nation to what... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1815
...use, •where he introduces Lear arguing with his daughter about what was nepdful for his state — O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the...than Nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. — What portion of each man's property may be requisite for the discharge of the national debt, by... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816
...the thunder-bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove. The Neceuarici of Life Jew. 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Lear on the Ingratitude of his Daughters. You tee me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 323 pages
...Have a command to tend you ? Regan. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need : our basest beggart Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, 15 Man's life is cheap as beasl 'a : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819
...Have a command to Mid you ? Reg. What need one ? Lear. 0, reason not the need: eur basest br girare Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's lite is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature ueeds not... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820
...needful for his state: " Oh ! 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." These laws create more mendicity than they relieve. Instead of raising the price of labour by increasing... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820
...needful for his state: " Oh ! 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." These laws create more mendicity than they relieve. Instead of raising the price of labour by increasing... | |
 | 1821
...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 an beasts!" There are many other painful instances in these times of that " restless wisdom" which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need : our basest beg- ' gars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs^ Uan's life is cheap as beast's L thou art a lady ; * Sine*. 140 KING LEAR. Act II. If only to go warm... | |
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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... 
