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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 letters; with important additions and corrections from his own ... - Page 129
by Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Christopher Booker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 748 pages
...curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfiinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up ... Have no delight to pass away the time Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own...
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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...Into this breathing world, scarce half made up , And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping...
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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...time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up . . . since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove...
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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...time Into this breathing world scarce half made up [...] (Ii18-21) This time, it seems, the history-literature opposition can be usefully applied and...
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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
...sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I,...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 Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page

Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 pages
...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 — Why, I, in this weak piping...
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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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The Art of Political Leadership: Essays in Honor of Fred I. Greenstein

Fred I. Greenstein - Political Science - 2006 - 310 pages
...curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature; Deformed, unfinished, 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— Why I, in this weak piping...
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Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

S©ıren Kierkegaard - History - 2006 - 101 pages
...inkling of the terrors of existence or of their explanation. I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph: I,...Into this breathing world scarce half made up — And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.172 Iyo A fairy tale ogre created...
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Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages

Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - Health & Fitness - 2006 - 597 pages
...somehow, happen. Times Literary Supplement DEFORMITY William Shakespeare; 1592 694 I, that am eurtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling...Into this breathing world, scarce half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.... Richard III, Act I, Scene...
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