| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pàgines
...any hope of salvation or by the reconciling influence of the Christian spirit. Man is born to tears: Thou must be patient. We came crying hither; Thou...first time that we smell the air We wawl and cry. (iv.vi) delivered by Edgar, who, in the midst of defeat and ruin, addresses the blind, exhausted Gloucester.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pàgines
...three or four years later that poor mad Lear repeated the thought in those marvellous lines : — ' Thou must be patient : we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry — I will preach to thee, mark me ! When we are born, we cry that we are come To this... | |
| Michael Ignatieff - 2001 - 170 pàgines
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| Theresa M. Krier - 2001 - 300 pàgines
...roughness of birth for both mother and infant, something we find in topoi throughout early periods. "We came crying hither, / Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air / We wawl and cry." Lear's cold comfort to Gloucester is the most haunting articulation of a topos widely developed in... | |
| Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pàgines
...triste día! Lear. Cuando nacemos, lloramos por llegar a este gran escenario de locos.' 1. Lear. If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes; / I know thee well enough; thy name is HAROLD BLOOM Después de Salomón el reino fue dividido, como lo fue por Lear. Pero no creo que Shakespeare... | |
| Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pàgines
...Philosophers and Kings first for Goneril, then for Cupid, Lear eventually addresses his loyal subject thus: If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes; I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester; Thou must be patient; we came crying hither: Thou know'st the first time that we smell... | |
| Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 pàgines
...career Shakespeare had reached some kind of golden inner peace within himself. But not so King Lear. "Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air / We wawl and cry," Lear says, "cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools," cry because the air is so far from... | |
| Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pàgines
...to its treatment of criminals. And, finally, he sees that human life is inescapably tragic: . , , , Thou must be patient; we came crying hither; Thou...first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry. . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. When we next see Lear he... | |
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