 Spit, fire ! spout, rain. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription : then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your...  The British Essayists: Adventurer - Page 149by James Ferguson - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1856 - 414 pages
...elements, with unkinduess, I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children ; You owe me no subscription : then, let fall Your horrible pleasure ; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man." King Lear, Act iii., Scene 2. Just afterwards, the Fool interposes, to heighten... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 301 pages
...then, let fall / Your horrible pleasure" ( 18-19). After that, the tone suddenly switches to pathos— "Here I stand your slave, / A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man" (19-20)— and then as quickly rises again to defiance ("But yet I call you servile ministers" [21]).... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription. Then, let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man. But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...with unkindncss. 15 I never gave you kingdom, called you children. You owe me no subscription. Why then, let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand...slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers, 20 That have with two pernicious daughters joined Your high engendered... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...elements, with unkindness: I never gave you kingdom, called you children; You owe me no subscription. Then let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand...slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man; 20 But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join Your high-engendered... | |
 | Shanta Gokhale - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 192 pages
...elements with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children. You owe me no subscription; then let fall your horrible pleasure; here I stand...slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man.' How close those beings of centuries ago were to nature. Recipients, every day, of its warm gifts and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children; You owe me no subscription. Then let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand...slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join Your high-engendered... | |
 | John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - Literary Collections - 1996 - 260 pages
...commanding the elements to destroy the earth, and to do their worst even to him: they owe him no kindness ("Here I stand your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man" [3.3.19-20]); and yet they are slavish servants, after all, to join his daughters in opposing him so... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1998 - 100 pages
...elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children; You owe me no subscription. Then let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man; But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join... | |
 | John Green, Paul Negri - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 68 pages
...elements, with unkindness,I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure,- here I stand,...slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd... | |
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