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 - Seite 183von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1766Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 Seiten
...'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...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag of a brother? Why 'bastard'? Wherefore 'base',... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...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... | |
| Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 Seiten
...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?... | |
| 2000 - 456 Seiten
...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... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 Seiten
...Vice of the morality plays. As Gloucester's 'natural' son, he decides that he will act 'naturally': Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve of fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? Wherefore base ?... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 Seiten
...hestiaL Therefore 'namre' is his goddess: 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? Why hastard? Wherefore hase? When... | |
| Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 Seiten
...then, one begins to suspect that the radical opposition between physis and nomos implicit in Edmund's "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound ..." - the radical contrast he would draw between the laws of Nature and the laws of men - far from... | |
| Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 Seiten
...Edmund's view is of course directly the opposite. When all by himself with no one to hear him he says, "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound," he is thinking of Nature simply as the way things are and of its only law as the law of the jungle.... | |
| Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 Seiten
...'Natural' Edmund may be, but he isn't loyal. When Edmund says, at the beginning of Act I, Scene ii: Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. (lines 1-2) Gloucester is quick to detect any divergence from the natural order and interprets Lear's... | |
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