 | Radhouan Ben Amara - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 148 pages
...Lear curses Goneril and asks Nature to make her barren: "LEAR: Hear Nature, hear! dear Goddess hear!// Dry up in her the organs of increase// And from her...derogate body never spring// A babe to honour her." (I, iv, 273-276) From Act II, Nature becomes Lear's main interlocutor and the forces of Nature are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...am ignorant Of what hath moved you. It may be so, my lord. Hear, Nature; hear, dear goddess; hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make...never spring A babe to honour her! If she must teem, 270 Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. Let it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 344 pages
...convey sterility, Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring 235 A babe to honour her. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live 217 s»| Ruin1; inn in Q, F 217 liest!) F; lisi Q; lessen Q2 218 train are) t-'; traine, and Q 222... | |
 | Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...eldest daughter, Goneril, is not as hospitable as he would like: Hear, Nature, hear! dear Goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make...may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her! 1.4.273-81 His invocation will have been heard by all three aspects of the goddess, for although his... | |
 | 232 pages
...nature goddess to render Goneril sterile: Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purposes; if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful!...child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart, disnatured torment to her! (l.iv:260-269) Knowing that it is difficult for him to punish Goneril for... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 276 pages
...passage, Lear is raging against his daughter Goneril: Lear: Hear, Nature, hear; dear goddess, hear: Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend To make this...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured... | |
 | Minette Walters - Fiction - 2007 - 374 pages
...sharp metal gag or bit which entered the mouth and restrained the tongue. —Oxford English Dictionary Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be...torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter... | |
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Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !... 
