| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 676 pages
...But for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ! I You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age ; wretched in both. 270 If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear... | |
| James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...type still lives in threats that would do credit to Atreus himself. Lear begins: You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me... | |
| Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...and bone of Lear's shame at being reduced to an impotence he considers womanish: You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me... | |
| William R. Elton - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...ill-starred, Of Zeus the enemy, hated of all (pp. 30o-301 ) somewhat as Lear complains, You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! (1I.^.274-275) and later, "here I stand, your slave, / A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man"... | |
| William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...warm. But for true need — You heavens, give me patience — patience I need! You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much 270 To bear it tamely; touch... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need. You see me here, you gods, a poor old fellow, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so mutfh 245 To bear it tamely. Touch... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...realize more fully when both Regan and Goneril join to strip him of his retainers: You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. (2.4.272-73) If Lear in his natural body is "a poor old man," at the same time he remains the king,... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...warm. But, for true need — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me... | |
| Robert S. Ellwood - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 182 pages
...inside. It is the debilitating selfpity of Shakespeare's King Lear, as he cries, "You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both ... A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man . . . unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,... | |
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