 Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Seite 82von Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 715 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Olson - 1997 - 492 Seiten
...in the storm scene senses it, but Gloucester blind speaks it: "I stumbled when I saw." Lear's words: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 Seiten
...he explains, "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep." This is his prayer: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm....raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, Pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
 | Nicholas Roe - 1998 - 344 Seiten
...identification with 'houseless poverty' against injustice and arbitrary power: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are. That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? (1n. iv. 28-32) It is the thought of a pitiless, famishing season such as this that the milder, fruited... | |
 | Andrew Wachtel - 1998 - 328 Seiten
..."Lir" — that is, Shakespeare's King Lear. The line occurs in Act III, scene 4 of the tragedy: [LEAR] Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 212 Seiten
...help if they were sick or pregnant or addicted, he thought often of the lines in which King Lear says, "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That...raggedness, defend you / From seasons such as these?" He never forgot how once when he had used them in one of his readings at the Apollonian, some octogenarian... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 Seiten
...Nay, get thee in; I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bid the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.... | |
 | Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca - 1998 - 188 Seiten
...cries out in the storm — once he is free of the Fool, who is the great enemy of the needy child: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? (3.4.28-32) The Fool's Techniques... | |
 | Michael J. Buckley, SJ - 1999 - 254 Seiten
...the majority of human beings — letters came with the terrible self-reproach of Lear upon the heath: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are. That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this!6 Much of the effort of the Society of Jesus — its college... | |
 | Marshall Berman - 1999 - 300 Seiten
...right now. When he was in power he never noticed, but now he stretches his vision to take them in: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness defend you From seasons such as these? O,I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - 1999 - 196 Seiten
...as Everyman is reminded, to share his superfluous wealth with the homeless, starving and unclothed: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggeaness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic,... | |
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