 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 str.
...bid thunder-bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove. THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE FEW. O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. LEAR ON THE INGRATITUDE OF HIS DAUGHTERS. You see me here, yon gods, a poor old man, As full of grief... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 str.
...strange, That can make vile things precious. KL iii. 2. Necessity will make us all forsworn. LL i. 1. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. KL ii. 4 But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience : patience 1 need. KL ii. 4. I... | |
 | Henry Taylor - 1853 - 232 str.
...five followers ? ' said Goneril. ' What need of one ? ' added Regan. But the King made answer — ' Oh reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in the...than Nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's ! ' The plea of ' supporting the station to which Providence has called us,' is not unmeaning, though... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 str.
...sense ; and do suppose, What hath been cannot bed. 11 — i. 1. 287. Nature content with little. 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 34 — ii. 4. 288. Nature, its weakness. Strange it is, That nature must compel us to lament Our most... | |
 | 1853 - 758 str.
...lived in the stirring days of Queen Elizabeth, most appositely says, in reference to riches, — " O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs." Applicable as these lines are to Lord Compton's case, they remain an axiom for all future generations,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 str.
...reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature mere The destinies will curse thee for this stroke ; They bid thee crop a weed, thou pluck'st Why,nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But for true need,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 str.
...five, To follow in" a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Reg. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need : our- basest beggars...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ! You see me... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 504 str.
...misapplied, And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 311- O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature nesds, Man's life is cheap as beast's. °-12. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought... | |
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O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... 
