 | Timothy Murray - Art - 1997 - 324 pages
...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever! I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass, If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. (V.iii.258-64)... | |
 | Peter Levine - Philosophy - 1998 - 308 pages
...relationship widi Cordelia until she is dead. At diat point, he suddenly becomes clear-sighted and literal: "I know when one is dead, and when one lives; / She's dead as eardi" (V.iii.259-60). Lear's embarrassment in die face of his living, loving daughter is surely one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, 268 Why then she lives. 269 KENT Is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass; 238 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, 239 Why, then she lives. KENT Is... | |
 | Christopher Pye - Drama - 2000 - 220 pages
...not that negation "as such" comes to the fore— but that it returns in such a vividly specular form. I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. (5.3.259-62) We... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...tongues and eyes, I would use them so That heaven ' s vault should crack . She ' s gone for ever . 255 I know when one is dead and when one lives . She's dead as earth. [He lays her down] Lend me a looking-glass . If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why,... | |
 | Michael Temple, James S. Williams - Performing Arts - 2000 - 274 pages
...It is awful to have the gift of feeling everything with such intensity'), we read the words: 'she's gone for ever /I know /when one is dead /and when/ one lives / lend me a looking glass'." This extract is juxtaposed visually with an image from the climax of Godard's... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Act v Sc iii Cordelia's... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...look there!" (309 — 10). This call is no more or less suffused with illusion than the certainty of "I know when one is dead and when one lives; / She's dead as earth" (258 -59). Despite some surviving habits of idealization, those left onstage do not try to imagine... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...hands have newly stopp'd. (v, ii, 201-2) Lear, entering with Cordelia dead in his arms, cries She's gone for ever ! I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. (v, iii, 259-63)... | |
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I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. 
