 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...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 the promised endpf Edg. Or image of that horror ? Alb. Pall, and cease ! J Lear. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...if gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth : — Lend ve their country's good, Cry— God save Richard, England's royal king! Glo. And did they Kent. Is this the promis'd end:5 Edg. Or image of that horror? .'//'.. Fall, and cease." Lear. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...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 the promised endpf Edg. Or image of that horror ? Alb. Pall, and cease ! J Lear. This... | |
 | James Bower Harrison - 1852 - 258 pages
...surface. * Medical Jurisprudence, p. 5. In King Lear we have the passage — " Lend me a looking glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives." Act v. Sc. in. For the same reason the stirring of any light substance, such as down, which may rest... | |
 | John Stevenson Bushnan - 1853 - 188 pages
...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 that the air breathed forth may dim a glass, and yet that the same portion of air, as... | |
 | 1853 - 706 pages
...the last act of Lear, when the old man enters, bearing his dead daughter in his arms, he says, " Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone. Why, then she lives." The lines contain no difficulty for any one for whom Shakspere could be made comprehensible ; but Mr.... | |
 | Samuel Weller Singer - 1853 - 350 pages
...slightest reason or necessity is another impertinent attempt to improve upon the language of the poet. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. " The looking-glass was not ' stone,' and a manuscript-correction substitutes shine, as having been... | |
 | 1853 - 522 pages
...intelligible.'—P. 444. Lastly, in the exquisite words of Lear, over the dead body of Cordelia,— : Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives '— the corrector has changed ' stone ' into ' shine, ' which is perhaps, on the whole, the better... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...— I know when one is dead, and when one lives : She 's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-giast : ch you, let her will Have a free way. Kent. Is this the promised end? /-.'(Л/. Or image of that horror ? Alb. Fall, rnd cease ! Lear. This... | |
 | 1853 - 708 pages
...the spirit of an attorney, that " the word was, most probably, same," and that we should read, " Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the same," Ac. And thus we should have Lear, in the climax of his agony, talking like •• the young... | |
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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. 
