 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...heinous a respect of grief. Const. He talks to me that never had a son. K. Phi. You are as fond of your grief as of your child. . Const. Grief fills the room...vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. u. Arthur. Good morning, Hubert. Hubert. Good morrow, little Prince. A. As little... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...hysterica passio " of Lear — is swallowed up in the mother's sense of her final bereavement : — " Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief. Fare you well : had you such a lose as 1, I could give better comfort than you... | |
 | Richard Howard Stamelman - Absence in literature - 1990 - 324 pages
...eloquently observes in Shakespeare's King John: Therefore never, never Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. Grief fills the room up of my absent child. Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of Grief. Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...produces reason How I may be deliver'd of these woes, And teaches me to kill or hang myself. and later: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. King John, Act HI, Scene Hi She is not "talking about" her emotional state, she... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...rightly. SENECA, (c. 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman. Epistulae ad Lucilium, epistle 68,1.13. 9 Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Constance, in King John,... | |
 | Judith Viorst - Self-Help - 2010 - 452 pages
...Constance: "You are as fond of your grief as of your child," she offers him this desperate explanation: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief. Another version of chronic grief is the so-called "mummification" of the dead,... | |
 | Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...has Queen Constance in Act III Scene 4 lament the fate of her son Arthur in these lines that follow: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form: Then have I reason to be fond of grief . Of course, I could be wrong. My linking of the writing of this speech with what... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...suggested Shakespeare wrote Hamnet's epitaph in the words of Arthur's mother Constance in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. . ." But although the sentiments certainly evoke every reality of grief for a lost child, Dr Rowse's... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...Pand. You hold too heinous a respect of grief. Const. He talks to me that never had a son. K. Phil. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Const....vacant garments with his form: Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? VI. ON Music From Newman, University Sermons (quoted in RH Mutton's Cardinal Newman).... | |
 | Timothy Morton - Cooking - 2000 - 246 pages
...Shakespeare has beautifully painted this passion, in the lamentation of Constance for her son, in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son; My life, my joy, my food, my all the world.... | |
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of... 
