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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. "
The Plays of William Shakspeare ... - Page 594
by William Shakespeare - 1785
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...men of stones: Had I your tongue and eyes, 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. . . . I might have sav'd her; now she's gone for ever! Cordelia, Cordelia! Stay a little. Ha! What...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, 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. Lend me a looking-glass; 260 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Is this the...
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Why Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Playwright's Art

G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, 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. (V.iii) The tender pathos of Romeo, who is telling himself what to do, makes for fine lyric writing,...
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The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page

Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 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. But there is more to this scene than grief. There is, visibly, Lear's age, too. Lear is not old in...
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Nigel Hawthorne on Stage

Kathleen Riley - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 404 pages
...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes 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 ear(h$Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives....
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Infirm Glory: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Image of Man

Sukanta Chaudhuri - Didactic drama, English - 1981 - 284 pages
...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, 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. (V.iii. 257-61) The capacity to face the full truth of life and death reaches its greatest extent in...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2007 - 260 pages
...orders, instructions 138 killed 139 made of That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. 235 I know when one is dead, and when one lives, She's dead as earth, (setting her down) Lend me a looking-glass, If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then...
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The Tragedy of King Lear: With Classic and Contemporary Criticisms

William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, 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. (V.3.255-59) The Christian allusions in the play thus form an ironic comment on the pious illusions...
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