 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?  Laocoon; Or The Limits of Poetry and Painting - Page 242by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1836 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...as a witty knave and attacks his first soliloquy in high spirits, with a dash of chivalric bitters: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law/ My services are bound" (1.2.1-2). More than the oath of a pagan devotee of anarchy, this is a courtly lover's tender of secret... | |
 | Rainer Schulze - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 338 pages
...aside, soliloquy and apostrophe. Edgar's invocation of nature is a well-known example of apostrophe: - Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. (Lear I, ii, 1 f.) Another example from King Lear is his invocation of the elements in his soliloquy... | |
 | Nicole Casanova - 476 pages
...maintenir, s'enjolive de métaphysique et se voile de ce « brouillard sacré » dont parle Franz Moor. Thou, Nature art my Goddess, to thy Law / My services are bound (« Nature, c'est toi mon dieu ! à ta loi je me livre" ») : tels sont ses premiers mots. Et en parlant... | |
 | Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca - Drama - 1998 - 188 pages
...generous and broad-minded father! It is no wonder, then, that Edmonds vengeance is dedicated to a mother: Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law My services are bound. (i.2.i-2)9s As for Lear's vulnerable old age, Bradley is not aware that there is also a type of senility... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...something, and i' th' heat. 312 Exeunt. °*> 1.2 Enter Bastard [Edmund, solus, with a letter]. EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit 3 The curiosity of nations to deprive me, 4 For that I am some twelve... | |
 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael Bliss - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 622 pages
...at any special therapeutic shrine, to pay your vows to Natute, taking the motto of Edmund in Lear, 'Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law my services are bound.' The third lesson is that the functions of the physician are to co-operate with Nature, to aid her where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...'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 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2000 - 456 pages
...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... | |
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