...ceased. So, in Shakspere, when Lear is striving to recover Cordelia, he exclaims :— " Oh ! she is gone for ever ; I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives." If it be said...

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...stones ; Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack : — O, she is gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth : — Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Kent. Is this...

...others. Had I your tongues and eyes I 'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack : — She 's gone for ever ' — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She 's dead as earth : — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,...

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...stone ! Had I your tongues and eyes, I 'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — 0, she is gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives : She 's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass : If that her breath will mist or stain the shine,...

...of stones ; Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever. — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone *, Why, then she lives. Kent. Is this...

...different order from Mozart's play on the body or the history of representation that constitutes this book. ("I know when one is dead, and when one lives. / She's dead as earth," howled Lear.) But my acquaintance with the medical aspect of bodies goes back farther than 1981. I...

...seem averted, however, than Lear enters, with Cordelia in his arms, howling: "She's gone forever. / I know when one is dead, and when one lives. / She's dead as earth" (V.ii.260-62). The horror of this death seems to be made all the more intolerable by its incomprehensibility....