 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pagina’s
...of a star! Edmund — Lear I.ii Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,...And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh As gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pagina’s
...Lear, reunited after his madness with Cordelia, imagines a life of simple love with her, hearing people talk of 'court news': and we'll talk with them too,...loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies. (v. iii. 14) The autocratic old king has won... | |
 | John Herbert Roper - 2003 - 364 pagina’s
...realities, the playwright reminded them of still another truth: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down....loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies.24 EPILOGUE By the planting season of 1981 Paul... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - 2003 - 208 pagina’s
...prison. We two alone will sing like birds i'th'cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down I0 And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray,...and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon V the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out In a walled prison packs and... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pagina’s
...Cordelia, that nothing else matters. Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage. When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news. Lear's vision of prison is clearly unrealistic. How unbalanced is he still? The lack of dynamic in... | |
 | Boris Fishman - 2003 - 289 pagina’s
...away to prison." And he tells Cordelia about all the things they can do together in prison: they will live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and...butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news, and they'll talk with them too — who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, and take upon themselves... | |
 | Kim Paffenroth - 2004 - 188 pagina’s
...singular use of "God" in the play): Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down...and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon 's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs and... | |
 | Hunter Drohojowska-Philp - 2004 - 696 pagina’s
...king, and wanted O'Keeffe to read Lear's words to Cordelia: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,...loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 pagina’s
...ambitions related to the now discarded persona and stoically indifferent to the affairs of this world: So we'll live And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,...loses and who wins, who's in, who's out — And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies. (5.3.11-17) The inner calm insulates Lear psychologically... | |
 | R. Clifton Spargo - 2004 - 338 pagina’s
...perfected generosity she must: Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i'th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news. . . . (5.3.8-14) Ending his speech confident that in a "walled prison" he and Cordelia can outlast... | |
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I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;... 
