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" I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them... "
The stranger in France, or, A tour from Devonshire to Paris - Page 221
by Sir John Carr - 1803 - 261 pages
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Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography

Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin - Political Science - 2003 - 384 pages
...front. But I that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass . . . I that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time. — W ILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,...
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Contemporary Studio Porcelain

Peter Lane - Art - 2003 - 626 pages
...(above) was not the deformed hunchback described by Shakespeare and portrayed by Antony Sher (right). Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinished, sent before my time.. . - Richard ni n DISCOVERING HISTORY 83 Under the influence Shakespeare dramatized the reigns of six...
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Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory

Herbert Grabes - 2005 - 408 pages
...dismiss (the rumour of Richard's monstrous birth, for instance) we get unequivocal self-declaration: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up [...] (Ii18-21) This...
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The Language of Shakespeare's Plays

B. Ifor Evans - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...develop a single idea. So in Richard Ill's description of his own position in his opening soliloquy : I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up , And that so lamely...
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The Shakespeare Project: An Arsenal of Scenes and Speeches from the Pen of ...

James Zager, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 70 pages
...looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfmish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and...
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The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social ...

Betty M. Adelson - History - 2005 - 482 pages
...was arguably a dwarf himself) . He expresses his self-hatred in the following celebrated soliloquy: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion Cheated of feature by dissembling nature Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up . . . since I cannot...
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Cosmetic Surgery Today

Dimitrije E. Panfilov - Medical - 2005 - 232 pages
...with negative characteristics. This extract from Shakespeare's Richard III is a typical example: "/, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Ugliness makes you lonely Richard III Psychoanalytic polarities...
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Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

S©ıren Kierkegaard - History - 2006 - 101 pages
...explanation. I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up — And that so lamely...
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English Dictionaries, 800-1700: The Topical Tradition

Werner H?llen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 548 pages
...heard my mother say 11 came into the world with my legs forward" (3 King Henry VI, v. vi 70-1) and: 'I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, / Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, I Deforma, unfinish'd, sent before my time I Into this breathing world scarce half made up.' (King...
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Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama

Tzachi Zamir - Philosophy - 2011 - 251 pages
...looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely...
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