 Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !...  Shakspere: His Times and Contemporaries - Page 66by George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...against Goneril with those of CEdipus against Polynice, the difference is striking : • • • • Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy...If thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful ; Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body... | |
 | 1914 - 650 pages
...274—7 in three lines is in every respect preferable to the above : — Lear. It may be so, my lord. Hear, nature, hear ; Dear goddess, hear ! suspend...Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful. It is surely better to treat 1. 274, "Of what hath moved you," as a short line standing by itself at... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...against Goneril with those of CEdipus against Polynice, the difference is striking : • • ' • Hear, nature, hear ; • Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, If thou didst intend t« make this creature fruitful ; Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...Alb. My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord.— Hear, nature, hear ; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend...if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; 1 One of the quarto copies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant, Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord. — Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy...if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord. — Hear, nature, hear ; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend...if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; i One of tlio quarto copies... | |
 | 1851 - 830 pages
...speaks out of his own heart, and gives loose to all the natural impetuosity of his disposition. 216 "Hear, nature, hear: dear Goddess, hear! Suspend thy...thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful.— Into her womb convey sterility. Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...Alb. My lord, I am guiltless, as lam ignorant Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord. — Hear, Nature, hear ; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend...if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate^ body... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster! A FATHER'S CURSE ON HIS CHILD. Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy...Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase; * The nicety of civil institution.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...by whieh it is distorted into the following lines, the usual text:— " It may be so, my lord, — Hear, nature, hear ; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if Thou didst intend to make this ereature fruitful !" k More of it— in the quartos, <At ceaue. To temper clay.— Ha ! Let it be so... | |
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