This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...of the world, he endows them with all he possessed, and seeks a quiet place where he may rest his weary head, happy in the love of his children. How bitter, how inexpressibly bitter, must be the anguish that rends the heart of the old king to meet such a return for all his goodness! At first, _all his old ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...of the world, he endows them with all he possessed, and seeks a quiet place where he may rest his weary head, happy in the love of his children. How bitter, how inexpressibly bitter, must be the anguish that rends the heart of the old king to meet such a return for all his goodness! At first, _all his old spirit comes back. His wrath swells highj he rouses all the haughty pride of his heart, and indignantly spurns the shelter of such a roof: --"Saddle my horses; call my train together.--Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee."--Act I. Scene 4. But when his passion is exhausted, the full force of the overwhelming blow strikes him. How full of bitter, repentful sorrow is that exclamation: --"O Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in, And thy dear judgment out." And with what terrible truthfulness does he describe the pain: --"Sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." There is, however, still one alleviation. "Yet has he left a daughter;" and how he clings to it, as, the last hope! But when here too he finds that he has been deceived, convulsed nature is almost too weak to bear the mighty shock, and reason, overwhelmed by such vast calamities, is for a time shaken from its throne. Under, however, the salutary discipline he receives, he learns to see his selfishness while in power, and to think for the interests of others. Formerly, as Regan said, "He had but slenderly known himself." Under his severe trials, he learned at length his past errors. He perceived that his former love was headstrong and untrue.. Thus he is at last brought to own to Cordelia: --"I know, you do not love me; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not."--Act IV. Scene 7. When he is at last...
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