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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 !... "
Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in progress to which ... - Page 220
by Robert Deverell - 1813
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An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two Books

George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 620 pages
...fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate47 body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must...teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, « Degraded. And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her ! that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...ignorant Of what hath mov'd you. Lear. It may be so , my lord. — Hear, nature, hear! dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose , if thou didst intend To make...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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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 13

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 338 pages
...ignorant Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord. — Hear, Nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if Thou didst intend to make...her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate 2 body never spring A babe to honor her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...ignorant Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord.—Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if Thou didst intend to make...convey sterility! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; 1 One of the quarto copies reads, " We that too late repents us." The others, " We that too late...
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Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in Drama

Saint-Marc Girardin - Drama - 1849 - 264 pages
...against Polynice, the difference is striking : • • • • Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, If thou didst intend to make...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her ! If she must teem, We. no more Create her child of spleen ; that it may live Antigone, And...
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Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in Drama

Saint-Marc Girardin - Drama - 1849 - 264 pages
...• ' • Hear, nature, hear ; • Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, If thou didst intend t« make this creature fruitful ; Into her womb convey...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 he a thwart disnatured...
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Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage

William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 360 pages
...solemnity or elevation. Here it is ; and let the reader judge for himself whether it should be so served. " Hear, Nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear a father !...; 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 and...
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Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage

William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 364 pages
...solemnity or elevation. Here it is ; and let the reader judge for himself whether it should be so served. " Hear, Nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear a father !...her ; " Let it stamp- wrinkles in her brow of youth, '7 ' M With cadeh^t tears fret channels in her cheeks ; . 'Turn. all her mother's pains and benefits...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 50, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...Of what hath moved you. Lear. It may be so, my lord. — Hear, Nature, hear ; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if Thou didst intend to make...child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured torment to her ! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ! With cadent§ tears fret channels...
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The Musical World, Volume 25

Music - 1851 - 830 pages
...loose to all the natural impetuosity of his disposition. 216 "Hear, nature, hear: dear Goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make...from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour herT" Finally, Lear feels his wrongs, unlike (Edipus, to be all personal, and he resents them as such...
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