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" Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to... "
The British Essayists;: Adventurer - Page 150
by Alexander Chalmers - 1808
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...delicate : the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else, Save what beats there. — ?" says he that takes upon him not to conceive. The answer ii as ready as a borrower's 4? — But I will punish home : — No, I will weep no more. — In such a night To shut me out! —...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 324 pages
...in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there - filial ingratitude! 15 Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't? But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will...
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Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry

H. G. Widdowson - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 248 pages
...another night, but a very different one. It is the night when Lear is turned out into the storm: LEAR Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't? But I will punish home. No, I will weep no more. — In such a night To shut me out! Pour on;...
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The Masks of King Lear

Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 456 pages
...ingratitude— and the thought, unleashed, hurls him violently into a see-saw from one thought to its counter. Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't? (15-16.) The recurrent language of bodily assault, in this case the cannibal imagery, is linked...
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Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...On the role of collapse of "differences" and "degree" in tragedy see Girard (1977), esp. pp. 49-52. Filial ingratitude, Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting foot to 't? (3.4.14-16) Lear cannot let go. His attempt to relinquish temporal responsibility is not...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...delicate; this tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude: Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't? But I will punish home. No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out — pour on;...
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The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...delicate. This tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else, Save what beats there: filial ingratitude. Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand 15 For lifting food to't? But I will punish sure. No, I will weep no more. In such a night as this!...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...body's delicate. The tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude, Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't? But I will punish home. No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will...
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre

Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...delicate; this tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else, Save what beats there - filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't? But I will punish home. (III.iv.11-16) "Home" in this passage carries two meanings: "on target,"...
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Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama, Volume 10

Frank Whigham - Drama - 1996 - 324 pages
...younger brothers see Thirsk, "Younger Sons." 74 For a bricoleur's parallel compare King Lear 3.4.14-16: "Filial ingratitude! / Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand / For lifting food to it?" 75 Given Wilkins's emphasis on drink as a marker of selective identification, it is interesting to...
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