 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 páginas
..."unneeded" followers: 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. (II.ii.453-56) One may contemplate the bleak, terrible close of King Lear and find a depiction... | |
 | J. A. Burrow - 2008 - 13 páginas
...opposition would be expected simply to side with Dindimus. Alexander has a case. In the words of King Lear, 'Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man's life is cheap as beast's.' The whole episode is deeply interesting in itself, certainly, and it presents a real challenge,... | |
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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,... 
