 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 340 pages
...with thee .[to Goneril. Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, And thou art twice her love. Gon. Hear me, my lord ; What need you five and twenty,...house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Re. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...make Lear reply to his daughters, who had been speaking in the true spirit of modern improvements: "O reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in...nature more than nature needs,, Man's life is cheap as blasts'" There are many other painful instances in these times of that " restless wisdom " which "... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 514 pages
...Lear, who in Act II. Sc. 4, utters that beautiful reflection, " O, reason not the need ! our hasest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's," now proceeds to carry this idea out. Seeing Edgar without clothes, he breaks forth into this sublime... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...five-and-twenty, And thou art twice her love. Gon. Hear me, my lord : What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house where twice so...Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why,nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'ct. Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But for true need,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 338 pages
...with thee : [to Goneril. Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, And thou art twice her love. Gon. Hear me, my lord ; What need you five and twenty,...house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Re. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...art twice her love. Gon. Hear me , my lord. What need you five and twenty, ten, or five. To follaw in a house , where twice so many Have a command to...Lear. O! reason not the need; our basest, beggars Arc in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Han's life is cheap... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 311. 0 reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. °.12. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 313. The friends thou hast... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 311. 0 reason not the need j our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 312. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 313. The friends thou hast... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...individuals, it is desirable that innocent superfluities should be increased among the people at large ; ' O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's ;' and that there bc extended, even to the lowest classes of society, as regards habitation, food,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1846 - 818 pages
...doubtless here pregnant with sad truth ; for what are men, if only their bare wants are satisfied ? " О reason not the need ! our basest beggars Are in the...nature needs — Man's life is cheap as beast's." " There are persons,'7 says the universal doctor, " who give to the poor what they would scarcely throw... | |
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Lear. 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. 
