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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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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 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...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...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 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...convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; i One of tlio quarto copies reads, " We that too late repents vs." The others, " We that too late...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...child, Than the sea-monster! A FATHER'S CURSE ON HIS CHILD. Hear, nature, hear; Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if Thou didst intend to make...sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase; * The nicety of civil institution. t Traitors. And from her derogat ,* body never spring A babe to...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 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.n The others, " We that too late...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...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...womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of inerease ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 32

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1852 - 718 pages
...should be awarded. " Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose if thou didst iiitend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey...! 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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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 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...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...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...[Stabs himself. LEAR'S IMPRECATION ON HIS DAUGHTER GONERIL. 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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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. (Macbeth. 1.3.43-45) 217 (b 1) If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that...may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her. (Km* Lear, 1.4.281-sj) (c,) If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity a while,...
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Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics

John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - Cardinal virtues - 1990 - 260 pages
...immediate reply were meant to be nothing short of frightful: 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 her!14 Bradley's description of Lear's behaviour as hubris is too simple. For instance, Lear's speech...
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