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" Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves: since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard : man's nature cannot carry The affliction... "
The Works of Shakespeare - Page 55
by William Shakespeare - 1752
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves : Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and...Remember to have heard : man's nature cannot carry The affliction, nor the fear. 34 — iii. 2. 66. Midnight. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve....
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Restoring Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis of the Misreadings in Shakespeare ...

Leon Kellner - 1969 - 234 pages
...misprinted for ea. This is practically o for e, as the old spelling had e where we have now ea. A. Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never \ Remember to have heard; man's nature cannot carry \ The affliction nor the force (Lr. IH, 2, 49). Thus Qq. Read, with F, fear. He after honour hunts,...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1972 - 356 pages
...wanderers of the dark And make them keep their caves. Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and...Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry Th'affliction nor the fear. LEAR Let the great gods That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads so...
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An Essay on King Lear

S. L. Goldberg - 1974 - 212 pages
...wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves. Since I was a man Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and...never Remember to have heard; man's nature cannot cany Th'affliction nor the fear. (ill, ii, 43~9) Human nature and the elements, like good and bad,...
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Madness in Literature

Lillian Feder - 1983 - 356 pages
...dwell on its symbolic meaning; it will serve to expose "man's nature" in all its cruelty and hypocrisy: Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. (in, ii, 49-51) His concern with justice here, and later in m, iv, vi, and iv, vi, when the concept...
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King Lear and the Gods

William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 pages
...thought-executing fires" (II1.ii.1, 4), just as Kent's choral commentary, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard . . . , (III.0.46-48) reemerges at the same third-act point in Shadwell's play, where the Captain observes:...
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Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare: The Practice of Theory

Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...elements for Lear are also the couriers or ministers of the gods, and a few lines later he declares: Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. (3.2.49-51) He runs through a list of wretches who attempt to hide their crimes from divine sight,...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...The wrathful skies And make them keep their caves. Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and...Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry Th'affliction nor the fear. LEAR Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads,...
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Elsie's Children

Martha Finley - 1994 - 342 pages
...make our arrangements," added her mother. CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND. * Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder? Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard." — SHAKESPEARE. EARLY in the morning of a perfect June day, our numerous party arrived at the wharf...
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Making Meaningful Choices in English: On Dimensions, Perspectives ...

Rainer Schulze - 1998 - 338 pages
...from King Lear is his invocation of the elements in his soliloquy during the storm on the heath: - Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwipp'd of Justice;...
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