 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 244 pages
...thunder ? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross lightning >. to watch (poor perdu !) With this thin helm >. Mine enemy's dog, Though he...forlorn, In short and musty straw ? Alack ! alack ! 'Tis wonder, that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all." There is a poignant contrast... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 324 pages
...thunder? 35 In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning? To watch - poor perdu! With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog, Though he had...Against my fire. And wast thou fain, poor father, 40 To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, tormented mind! Tune the discordant senses of this... | |
 | Robert Manson Myers - Georgia - 1991 - 262 pages
...messenger into the pitiless pelting of such a storm as this evening. Don't you remember that line in Lear: "Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me, should have stood that night against my fire"? And you. a Christian man, send out poor Titus, the bishop of Crete, the emperor of Rome, "a man and a brother,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...white flakes 30 Did challenge pity of them. Was this a face To be opposed against the warring winds? Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have...Against my fire. And wast thou fain, poor father, 35 To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn In short and musty straw? Alack, alack, 'Tis wonder... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...nimble stroke Of quick cross lightning? To watch, poor perdu, 35 With this thin helm? Mine injurious dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that...rogues forlorn In short and musty straw? Alack, alack, 40 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all. [To the Doctor] He wakes. Speak... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross-lightning, to watch — poor perdu! — With this thin helm? 168 Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have...swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? 169 Alack, alack! 40 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all. — He wakes;... | |
 | William C. Carroll - Drama - 1996 - 268 pages
...the end of the fourth act, at the same time that Lear's madness vanishes. Lear, Cordelia reports, was "fain, poor Father, / To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn / In short and musty straw" (4.7.39-41), but now awakes, as if in a dream, to hear himself addressed by his daughter as "royal... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - Acting - 1997 - 132 pages
...thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross-lightning, to watch - poor perdu 15 With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog, Though he had...rogues forlorn In short and musty straw? Alack, alack, 20 TJs wonder that thy life and wits at once 21 Had not concluded all! [To the Doctor] He wakes. Speak... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...thunder? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross-lightning? to watch — poor perdu ! — With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog, Though he had...me, should have stood that night Against my fire. (4.7.30-38) This speech forgets, or at some level denies, "To your professed bosoms I commit him";... | |
 | Nicole Casanova - 476 pages
...Roi Lear. En se lamentant sur ce que ses mauvaises sœurs ont fait subir au père, Cordelia dit : ... and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with...swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw" ? (« Et il t'a fallu, pauvre père, gîter avec les pourceaux, des gueux sans feu ni lieu, sur des... | |
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Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 
