 | Charles Derber - 2000 - 164 Seiten
...everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy." OSCAR WILDE, from "The Remarkable Rocket" "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low; an excellent thing in women." SHAKESPEARE, from King Lear Men and women learn to pursue attention differently and expect... | |
 | Carolyn G. Heilbrun - 2002 - 188 Seiten
...Lear's encomium on Cordelia, a phrase emblazoned in my day at the entrance to the Wellesley Library: "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman." This was an admonition that profoundly annoyed me at the time; today I think it marvelously inappropriate:... | |
 | Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 Seiten
...timid, and to those that are smooth versus stumbling. 37 Is Tour Voice Appealing? What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. Lear, King Lear. 5, 3 What do you notice first about a voice? Typically, our first reaction is to its... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 684 Seiten
...powers of a sweet female voice, and his dislike of the opposite defect. [He cites Lear, V.iii.272 f., "Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman." See also Lucrece, 1. 1220.] 135. Ore-worne] SCHMIDT (1875): Worn and spoiled by time. — Cf. 1. 866... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 Seiten
...believe that his daughter is dead and when he doesn't hear her speak thinks that maybe it is only because "Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman" and that perhaps his hearing has failed him. He has an old man's pride at having had strength enough... | |
 | Carol Chillington Rutter - 2001 - 244 Seiten
...'Mend your speech' rebuked the 'Nothing' she wanted to say. Now, saying nothing, Lear approves her: 'Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman'. Of course, speechless, Cordelia is deprived of obvious power to construct her own meanings. Dead, she... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 240 Seiten
...a blurred moment Kent whom he banished none but Cordelia. And again he reproaches her silence, for ...Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. Then his heart breaks.'1 That is a fine perception. But is it positive enough? Does Lear do no more... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2002 - 436 Seiten
...wasn't the audience, who were left pretty cold by Lear's griefs: every time I saw this show, the line 'Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman' got a laugh — in part compassionately wry ('o the poor devil, he 5ii7/ hasn't got it') but in part... | |
 | Christina Luckyj - 2002 - 212 Seiten
...saved her; now she's gone for ever. Cordelia, Cordelia: stay a little. Ha? What is't thou sayst? - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee. (Tragedy 5.3.244-8) The pause which lengthens the caesura... | |
 | Universidad de Valencia - 2002 - 276 Seiten
...have saved her; now she's gone for ever. Cordelia, Cordelia stay a little. Ha! What ist thou sayest? Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low -an excellent thing in woman. I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee. King Lear (V.iii) ROSALIND. Do you not know I am a woman!... | |
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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman. 
