 Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in...  King Lear - Page 158by William Shakespeare - 1924 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE. Cor. And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone ? Touch. Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it is a good...respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 134 pages
...CORIN and TOUCHSTONE come up CORIN And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone? TOUCH. Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good...respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very... | |
 | Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 pages
...that points, I think, to the same mystery. These are Touchstone's reflections upon a shepherd's life: in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...be- 6 character inscribe haviour of the pastoral lover. io ¡inexpressive inexpressible TOUCHSTONE Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good...respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 356 pages
...shepherd's question 'how like you this shepherd's life' (L11). endorses his desire to be elsewhere: Truly. shepherd. in respect of itself. it is a good...respect that it is a shepherd's life. it is naught. In respect that it is solitary. I like it very well; but in respect that it is private. it is a very... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...Touchstone?' asks Corin- replies, in a passage that encapsulates Shakespeare's capacity for evenhandedness: Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good...respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 1998 - 228 pages
...through the woods with two chaps content in each other's company) until Touchstone starts to show off: 'In respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught' (m.ii. 14-15) and so on, then throws it over to Corin. 'Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?' (line... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...shepherd's life and a courtier's life. How do you like the shepherd's life? Corin asks Touchstone. 'Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good...respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught' (As You Like It, 3.2.13-15). And so on for a good three or four minutes. The effect worked by all these... | |
 | Richard F. Hardin - 2000 - 300 pages
...Shakespeare has one of his wisest characters proclaim of the life in nature, the shepherd's life, that "in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught" (3.2.13-15). Cymbeline's son, having without his knowledge a royal nature that instinctively abhors... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2003 - 390 pages
...are the only points that come though decisively in Touchstone's analysis of 'this shepherd's life': in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very... | |
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