 | William R. Jordan - 2003 - 272 页
...extremity the desperate futility of such counsel. our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. King Lear, 2.4.264-67 As for the gift and the step into a solidarity with nature, the idea... | |
 | M. Carmen Africa Vidal - 2003 - 170 页
...séquito tan caro: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - 2003 - 208 页
...poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous," Why needs not what thou gorgeous wearest, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need — You heavens,... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 页
...all. Lear bursts out, O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous; Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Where does such a response come from? It shows an awareness of the human condition, a philosophy... | |
 | Susan Gushee O'Malley - 2004 - 346 页
...court me. 51. Grips. 52. Choice between alternatives. 53- Lack. 54. See Shakespeare's King Lear (1605): "If only to go warm were gorgeous, / Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, / Which scarcely keeps thee warm" (2.4.268-70). 55. The "apoplexie," or sudden illness, of... | |
 | Tanya Grosz - 2004 - 70 页
...is Lear saying about what makes a man happy and separates him from animals? 2. "Thou art a lady;/If only to go warm were gorgeous, /Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,/Which scarcely keeps thee warm." Question: How does Lear compare his daughters' material needs... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 页
...are marked by this basic human need to belong to a larger acknowledging whole. When King Lear said, "Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's" (2.4.261-62), that "more" that Lear and the mankind for which he speaks requires and that... | |
 | Lee Herman, Alan Mandell - 2004 - 244 页
...I found the quote: O. reason not the need! our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs. Man's life is cheap as beast's. (Shakespeare 1974: III. i. 264-267) I wasn't sure I really understood the quote (and I was... | |
 | Kim Paffenroth - 2004 - 188 页
...Regan's cruel "reason": O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 页
...Tragic Sequence beggar, a symbol of man reduced to his essence, is contrasted with the fashionable lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. (II.iv.2<57~9) In the mad scenes Lear harps on the way clothes,... | |
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O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... 
