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" 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? "
Du Laocoon, ou des limites respectives de la poésie et de la peinture - Page 209
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1802 - 384 pages
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The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytical and Literary Reinterpretation ...

Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca - 1998 - 188 pages
...generous and broad-minded father! It is no wonder, then, that Edmonds vengeance is dedicated to a mother: Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law My services are bound. (i.2.i-2)9s As for Lear's vulnerable old age, Bradley is not aware that there is also a type of senility...
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Making Meaningful Choices in English: On Dimensions, Perspectives ...

Rainer Schulze - 1998 - 338 pages
...aside, soliloquy and apostrophe. Edgar's invocation of nature is a well-known example of apostrophe: - Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. (Lear I, ii, 1 f.) Another example from King Lear is his invocation of the elements in his soliloquy...
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Fils dévoyés, filles fourvoyées. Les désastres familiaux dans la littérature ...

Nicole Casanova - 476 pages
...maintenir, s'enjolive de métaphysique et se voile de ce « brouillard sacré » dont parle Franz Moor. Thou, Nature art my Goddess, to thy Law / My services are bound (« Nature, c'est toi mon dieu ! à ta loi je me livre" ») : tels sont ses premiers mots. Et en parlant...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...something, and i' th' heat. 312 Exeunt. °*> 1.2 Enter Bastard [Edmund, solus, with a letter]. EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit 3 The curiosity of nations to deprive me, 4 For that I am some twelve...
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Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money

Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...legitimate brother, Edgar, and usurp his inheritance. Edmund, too, is a worshiper of Mother Nature: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound" (I.ii.1). But this is not the nature that guarantees the ties of kinship, what Lear calls "Propinquity...
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William Osler: A Life in Medicine

Michael Bliss - 1999 - 622 pages
...at any special therapeutic shrine, to pay your vows to Natute, taking the motto of Edmund in Lear, 'Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law my services are bound.' The third lesson is that the functions of the physician are to co-operate with Nature, to aid her where...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...'t. 295 GONORIL We must do something, and i'th' heat. Exeunt Sc . 2 Enter Edmund the bastard EDMUND 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...
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King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...on't. GONERIL We must do something, and i' th' heat. 295 * ^ I.2 Enter Bastard [Edmund] solus. EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess. To thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Exeunt. Stand in the plague of custom and permit 3 The curiosity of nations to deprive me 4 For that...
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the ...

Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pages
...Exchange have got, In vain our Poets Preach, whilst Church-men Plot. Act I (Enter BASTARD solus.) BASTARD 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?...
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Philosophy and political economy in some of their historical relations ...

2000 - 456 pages
...Bentham's Anarehical Fallatits ( Whs., vol. ii.), Lewis' Use and Abuse of some Political Terms (1832). 1 " Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound." — Lear, I. n. • Afaebrth, V. i. 79. forces with and on which it works on the other side; and it...
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