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No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the emnity o' th' air, To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, Necessity's sharp pinch. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Necessity] O let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Proverbs] O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Unkindness] O, sir, you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of his confine. - King Lear (Regan at II, iv) [Age] We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Insanity] We'll set thee to school to an ant. to teach thee there's no laboring i' th' winter. - King Lear (Fool at II, iv) [Teaching] When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. - King Lear (Fool at II, iv) [Advice] Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way. - King Lear (Fool at II, iv) [Winter] You think I'll weep. No, I'll not weep. I have full cause of weeping, but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Tears] I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study? - King Lear (King Lear at II, vi) [Study] Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks. - King Lear (King Lear at III, ii) [Storms : Tempests] For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. - King Lear (Fool at III, ii) [Women] He that has a house to put 's head in has a good headpiece. - King Lear (Fool at III, ii) [Architecture] I am a man More sinned against than sinning. - King Lear (King Lear at III, ii) [Sin] Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice. - King Lear (King Lear at III, ii) [Crime] Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. - King Lear (Edgar at III, iv) [Books] Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear, But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year. - King Lear (Edgar at III, iv) [Eating] Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. - King Lear (King Lear at III, iv) [Medicine] The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu. - King Lear (Edgar at III, iv) [Devil] When the mind's free, The body's delicate. - King Lear (King Lear at III, iv) [Freedom] Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend. - King Lear (Edgar at III, vi) [Fishing] The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me. - King Lear (King Lear at III, vi) [Dogs] When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. - King Lear (Edgar at III, vi) [Proverbs] Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship. - King Lear (Edgar at III, vi) [Grief] You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. - King Lear (King Lear at III, vi) [Fashion] Displaying page 111 of 187 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 [111] 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
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