 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.  Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for ... - Page 140by William Shakespeare - 1865Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...their virtue, and all foes 305 The cup of their deservings. O, see, see! Lear. And my poor fool241 is hanged: no, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. 3 10 Pray you, undo this button.242 Thank... | |
 | Rita Felski - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 386 pages
...for their sport" — but that the justified questioning of human beings in innocent agony (Job) — "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life? And thou no breath at all?" — is doomed to remain unanswered. Blasphemy, a fundamentally religious mode, characterizes key motions... | |
 | Gerard Woodward - Fiction - 2007 - 308 pages
...carrying her as a baby - "thy crying self - on to the boat and into exile. Think of Lear and Cordelia - "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?" Think even of Titus Andronicus and Lavinia . . .' The students nodded thoughtfully. Afterwards Aldous... | |
 | John McCormick - Social Science - 2011 - 261 pages
...Cordelia's death by hanging. Kent conducts Lear to the scene: And my poor fool is hanged: no, no life? Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Thank you sir. Lear is humbled but shocked in his belated awareness of Cordelia's reward for her integrity, and sees... | |
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