| Isaac Asimov - Fiction - 2009 - 418 pages
...managing to work up an impression of beggars merely by producing the fluttering of rags, Lear says: "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
| Cynthia J. Bogard - Social Science - 276 pages
...past and present May we all pursue our calling with such dedication Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? —William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene iv Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction... | |
| Oliver Ford Davies - Drama - 2003 - 224 pages
...others' comfort when he begs Kent and the Fool to take their ease in the hovel. This is a prelude to Poor, naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care... | |
| Jamie Harrison, Rob Innes, T. D. Van Zwanenberg - Medical - 2003 - 220 pages
...where Lear recognises the failures of power and social organisation: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care... | |
| Michael Paul Gallagher - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 156 pages
...invites the beggar to go ahead of him into the shelter. And then he cries out with his new vision: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless night, How shall our houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you... | |
| John C. Hampsey - Philosophy - 2004 - 236 pages
...naked (both literally and figuratively), Lear is able to see in an off-track way unknown to him before: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
| Mark Allen McDonald - Drama - 2004 - 334 pages
...You houseless povertyNay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, wherso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, Pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
| Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 pages
...— the soliloquy Lear delivers when, after raging on the heath, he stumbles on a place of shelter: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window 'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? Oh, I have ta'en Too little care of this!... | |
| Kim Paffenroth - Religion - 2004 - 188 pages
...of his descent into madness and revelation, hints at serious problems in his reign and in his life: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care... | |
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