 Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore...  Lessings Werke - Page 183by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1766Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 502 pages
...Phillips, KING LEAR. ACT I. SCENE I.— An Antichamber in King Lear't Palact. Enter EDMUND, n. Edm. (c.) Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : why am I then Depriv'd of a son's right, because I came not In the dull road that custom has prescrib'd?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd, As thou my sometime daughter. BASTARDY. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services...should I Stand in the plague§ of custom; and permit * Kindred. t From this time. if His children. The curiosity* of nations to deprive me, For that I am... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...EariofGtoster'sCastb. Enter EDMCND, with a Letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are hound; Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ;...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a hrother? Whyhastard? wherefore hase? When... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...heat.1 [Exeunt. SCEJfE IL— Л hau in the Earl of Gloster's castle. Enter Edmund, with a utter. E'ltn. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague1 of custom ; and permit The curiosity* of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...well, a serviceable villain ; As duteous to the vices of thy mistress As badness could desire. Id. Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Id. Both fell by our servants, by those men we lov'd most : A most unnatural and faithless service.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...heat.' SCENE II. A Hall in the Earl ofGloster's Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a Letter. [Exeunt. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; * to thy law My services...bound: Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; h and permit The curiosity of nations' to deprive me, d of long-engrafted condit,on-] ie Of qualities... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...i» the Earl ofGloster's Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a Letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ;g to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ;h and permit The curiosity of nations' to deprive me, d oj' long-engrafted condition,] ie Of qualities... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...heat.* [Exeunt. BCEJfE IL— A halt in the Earl of Gloster's castle. Enter Edmund, with a utter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague1 of custom ; and permit The curiosity4 of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...[Eit tint. SCENE II.— A Hall in the Earl of GLOSTHR'S Cay tit. Enter EUMUNU, n-it/ta Letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services...are bound : Wherefore should I Stand In the plague <T of custom ; and permit The curiosity •• of nation* to deprive me, For that I am some twelve... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 pages
...figurative and poetical style, is sufficiently illustrated by the following passage from Shakspeare : — " Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound." * Nature is also used to signify the material things created by God, the outward objects which strike... | |
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