 | James Hastings - 2004 - 344 Seiten
...filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat ' (iirfS^tt). Cf. Shaks. Lear, IT. vii. 38— ' and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with...swine, and rogues forlorn. In short and musty straw?' From this the word easily slipped into the sense of 1 obliged,' ' compelled," as in Pref. to AV ' he... | |
 | Erica Fudge - 2004 - 264 Seiten
...have cried, good porter, turn the key" — is repeated, but reworked, by Cordelia later in the play: "Mine enemy's dog / Though he had bit me, should have stood that night / Against my fire."16 These two related arguments, which one might easily read as different versions of the same... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 Seiten
...terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross lightning? To watch — poor perdu! — With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have...swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 40 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 Seiten
...the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross lightning? to watch, (poor perdu!) With thin helm? mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire. Her mild magnanimity shines out in her farewell to her sisters, of whose real character she is perfectly... | |
 | Frances Teague - 2006 - 162 Seiten
...You should not use me so" (2.2.136—37), while Cordelia, speaking of what has happened to Lear, says "Mine enemy's dog, / Though he had bit me, should have stood that night / Against my fire" (4.7.35—37). Once again the image may suggest a ruler displaced unjustly and violently, particularly... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, William Shakespeare, Abigail Frost - 2004 - 164 Seiten
...cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. Act iv Sc vi 136 Cordelia's kindness Mine enemy's dog, Tlwugh he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire. And wast though fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw! Alack,... | |
 | John D. Cox - 2007 - 368 Seiten
...refers to her father, identifying him as the "lost one" of the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15, "and wast thou fain, poor Father, / To hovel thee...swine and rogues forlorn / In short and musty straw?" (4.7.36-41).51 To acknowledge the origin of these references does not require an allegorical understanding... | |
 | 532 Seiten
...: " On such a night, mine enemy's dog Should have stood against my fire." But Shakespeare said : " Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me, Should have stood, that night, against my fire." Of all the poets — of all the writers — Shakespeare is the most original. He is as original as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 260 Seiten
...= your reverenced self 19 tufts (of hair) 20 demanded To be opposed against21 the warring winds? 35 Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me, Should have stood that night against22 my fire. And wast thou fain (poor father) To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn,23... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 Seiten
...nimble stroke Of quick, cross399 lightning to watch — poor perdu!400— 35 With this thin helm?401 Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire; and wast thou fain,402 poor father, To hovel thee403 with swine and rogues forlorn,404 In short405 and musty straw?406... | |
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Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 
