| James Howe - Buddhism and literature - 1994 - 290 pages
...himself has known. He does not shy away from the most difficult facts, but instead confronts them: Get thee glass eyes, And like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. (4.6.170-72) There is the virtue of honesty in physical blindness, a virtue ironically missing... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...Through tattered rags small vices do appear: Robes and furred gowns hides all. Get thee glass eyes, 155 And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. No; now, Pull off my boots. Harder, harder! So. 128 Here] Q; Let me F 129—30 O . . . me?] Route's... | |
| Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none — I say none! I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou... | |
| William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none. I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th'accuser's lips. 154 Get thee glass eyes 170 And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things... | |
| A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1994 - 324 pages
...deception and mortality are made clear to him. He can now see Cordelia in the role of victim as he states: 'Take that of me, my friend, who have the power / To seal th'accuser's lips" (4.5.16162). Lear's awareness of his own guilt expresses itself in his madness and... | |
| Charles Nicholl - History - 1995 - 440 pages
...watchers and listeners everywhere, ready to twist some innocent remark into sedition against the State. 'Get thee glass eyes and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.' This added hugely to Walsingham's work-load, sifting out genuine intelligence from reams of malicious... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none - I say none! I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou... | |
| John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 310 pages
...Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none. I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th'accuser's lips"0 (History, 20. 146-8; Tragedy, 4. 5. 147-66) — lines on justice while also very... | |
| Ivo Kamps - Drama - 1995 - 360 pages
...Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none - I say none; I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th'accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou... | |
| Beethoven Forum - Music - 1996 - 226 pages
...Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. None does otfend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em; Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou... | |
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