 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...talks to me that never had a son. KING PHILIP. You aie as fond of grief as of your child. CONSTANCE. ANDRONICUS. Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. — I will not keep... | |
 | Leslie O'Dell - Performing Arts - 2002 - 442 pages
...but as she leaves, she pulls it all down again, and her confused words mirror her distracted reason: Grief fills the room up of my absent child: Lies in...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this... | |
 | Carol Dommermuth-Costa - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 120 pages
...Constance is grief stricken over the death of her child, Arthur, Duke of Bretagne and nephew of King John. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of Grief. Fare you well. Had you such loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this... | |
 | Mitch Carmody - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 148 pages
...several of the poems that were written around the same time. All which reflect my pain and longing. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts. Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. — William Shakespeare MAHALO SWEET HAWAII Hawaii, land of sun and land of love you call to me upon... | |
 | James W. Hall - Fiction - 2010 - 352 pages
...best readers and editors I could wish for. And Evelyn, for her unfailing love, support, and wisdom. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. — King John, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PROLOGUE The marlin was the color of the ocean at twenty fathoms,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...makes his owner stoop. Constance — King John IILi Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies on his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Constance — King John III.iv Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott, Maria Graham - Authors, English - 2003 - 364 pages
...feeling, but never, in my mind, more truly or beautifully than when he makes Constance exclaim — Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...with his form: — Then have I reason to be fond of Grief.8 In the course of the day, however, the kindly acts and expressions of my new neighbours, and... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...Augustine's point. She defends her right to grieve, explaining the emotion's psychological function: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? (KJ 3.4.93-8) Alexander Leggatt notes the same phenomenon in Richard II. When Leggatt observes that... | |
 | Royal Shakespeare Company - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 250 pages
...has lost her son she has had a true awakening to the real experience of grief and says, profoundly: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? Grief is no longer great, nor proud. (m.iv.93-8) As we started to rehearse the play, I already knew... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt - Dramatists, English - 2004 - 460 pages
...insisting on her grief, she replies with an eloquent simplicity that breaks free from the tangled plot: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. (3.4.93-97) If there is no secure link between these lines and the death of Hamnet, there is, at the... | |
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of... 
