 | John Julius Norwich - History - 2001 - 438 pages
...Friars in Leicester. It cost him just a shilling over ten pounds. King Richard III [1471-1485] K. RICH. 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... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 348 pages
...deformity is caused by a moment, an instance, as when Richard describes himself as "deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time / Into the breathing world, scarce half made up." 21 His self-image is of a loaf half-baked, deformed by not enough time in the womb. 22 While not much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pages
...key-note to his whole character — that of contempt — in the celebrated apostrophe to his own person: '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.' His ambitious nature,... | |
 | 1984 - 460 pages
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 | Mícheál O'Searcoid - Mathematics - 2001 - 318 pages
...— that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph — / — 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 ... Richard IIl. l,i... | |
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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... 
