Gloucester. Nor further, sir, a man may rot even here. Edgar. What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure... Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gloucester. O, let me kiss that hand! Lear. Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality.... Gloucester. O ruined piece of nature! This great world Shall so wear out to nought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lear. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Gloucester. Ay, sir.... Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Part way back from Bedlam I came to my mother's house in Gloucester,... Massachusetts. And this is how I came to catch at her; and this is how I lost her. I cannot forgive your suicide, my mother said. And she never could.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Negro history must be studied, not only because it is the history of over 19 millions, but American life as a whole cannot be unde...rstood without knowing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »