 Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !...  The dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Page 25by William Shakespeare - 1814Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...lord. — Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! — Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...lord. — Hear, nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility...child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her ! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ; With cadent tears fret channels... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...my lord Hear, nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen : that it may live, To be a thwart disnatur'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility! Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate4 body never spring A babe to honour her! If she must...child of spleen; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her!5 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth; With cadent tears 6 fret channels... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...lord. — Hear, Nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make with 's will permit, We shall appear before him. — On there ! pass along ; (*) Pint folio omit», O ¡ir, are you come! »— an engine,— ] By an engine is meant the instrument... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 836 pages
...lord. — Hear, Nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make disnatur'd torment to her ! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ; With cadent tears fret channels... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 116 pages
...unsex herself: Hear Nature, hear; dear goddess, hear. Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility;...her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! (i, iv, 275-81) Yet the unwomanliness of Goneril and Regan differs from Lady Macbeth's not only because... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 244 pages
...felt. "Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou did'st intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility...her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! . . ." Goneril scorns both him and his curse : "Let his disposition have that scope That dotage gives... | |
 | William F. Zak - Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature - 1984 - 220 pages
...honor her! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her. Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow...cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - Cardinal virtues - 1990 - 260 pages
...frightful: Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility!...from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her!14 Bradley's description of Lear's behaviour as hubris is too simple. For instance, Lear's speech... | |
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