| D. Vaver - Law - 2006 - 314 pages
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| Ernest Van Den Haag - Philosophy - 386 pages
...his courtiers were functionally unnecessary, a luxury, Lear rightly, though in vain, entreated: Oh, reason not the need. Our basest beggars Are in the...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Turning directly to Regan, Lear averred: Thou art a lady. If only to go... | |
| Jennifer Mulherin, William Shakespeare, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 164 pages
...servants wander over a lonelv heath. How many knights? Gon. Hear me, my lord Wlmt need you five-andtwenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you? Reg. What need one'Lear. O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not... | |
| Peter J. Leithart - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 179 pages
...to Gonerill for more favorable treatment: Gonerill: Hear me, my lord; What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five To follow, in a house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? Regan: What need one? (2.4.254—258) Anguished, Lear cries "O, reason not the need!" If man is allowed... | |
| Icon Reference - 2006 - 208 pages
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| 2007 - 76 pages
...play. Lear looks with sympathy at the concept of human need, and shows some insight and growth. Lear Oh reason not the need.' Our basest beggars Are in the...nature more than nature needs Man's life is cheap as beast's.2 Thou art a lady; 265 If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
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