| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 pages
...mock me : I am a very foolish, fond old man, Four score and upwards, and to deal plainly with you, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should...not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me j For as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA. And so I am, I am! LEAR.... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...the wonderful passage in Lear, beginning " I am a very foolish, fond old man, Fourscore and upward, and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind." It would appear at first sight that this is the language of common life, but it is only apparently... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...must not kneel. Lear. Pray, do not mock me I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward ; and, to deal plainly, I fear, I am not in my perfect mind. Mcthinks, I should know you, and know this min Yet I am doubtful : for I am mainly ignorant What place... | |
| 1838 - 876 pages
...Methinks I should know you, and know ibis man, Yet 1 am doubtful; fur I am mainly ignorant \v' hat place this is ; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; our I know not \V here I did lodge last night. Du not laugh at me, For, as I am a man, I think this... | |
| Ellen Pickering - 1839 - 324 pages
...not mock me. I am a very foolish, fond old man, Fourscore and upward : and to deal plainly with you, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should...the skill I have Remembers not these garments ; nor do 1 know Where 1 did sleep last night. Pray do not mock me; For, as I am a man, I think that lady... | |
| Ellen Pickering - Bristol (England) - 1839 - 944 pages
...: and to deal plainly with you, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Melhinks 1 should know you, ard know this man: Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly...the skill I have Remembers not these garments ; nor do 1 know Where 1 did sleep last night. Pray do not mock me; For, as I am a man, I think that lady... | |
| Ariel Glucklich - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1997 - 264 pages
...self. In his grief King Lear became a stranger to his surroundings and lost his own self: Me thinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful;...all the skill I have Remembers not these garments. Even lesser causes, such as ritual chanting, drumming, and dancing, produce similar effects, as we... | |
| Emerson R. Marks - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 428 pages
...do not mock me; I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect...this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments.1' Whatever the shortcomings of Beattie's disquisition (marred by considerable theoretical... | |
| Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - Drama - 1998 - 44 pages
...but jest ... and ... 'tis my vocation, and 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation ... but, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind ... methinks I should know you (Points to someone in the house.) ... and know this man (Points to someone else.) ... but I am mainly... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...and know this man: I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant 6? What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers...Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; 70 For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am! I am! LEAR... | |
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