 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. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,...  Political and agricultural subjects - Page 231by Richard Watson - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...follow in a house where twice so many 420 Have a command to tend you? REGAN What needs one? LEAR 0, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man ' s life is cheap as beast 's . Thou art a lady . 425 If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature... | |
 | Raymond Rhinehart - Architecture - 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;... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...His daughters, insisting that he reduce his train, are challenging his need for having any knights: O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature need not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - Literary Criticism - 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 - Drama - 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... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...And loses that it works for. Iago — Othello III. Hi Nothing will come of nothing. Lear — Lear Li O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...'The 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...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... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...does not "need" twenty or ten or five of his train. "What need one?" asks Regan. And Lear cries, Oh, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear's!,... | |
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