 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...or punishment according to desert, and their human assumptions are often projected on to 'the gods'. Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd... | |
 | Lillian Feder - 1983 - 356 pages
...dwell on its symbolic meaning; it will serve to expose "man's nature" in all its cruelty and hypocrisy: Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. (in, ii, 49-51) His concern with justice here, and later in m, iv, vi,... | |
 | William F. Zak - 1984 - 220 pages
...exactly than his speech in act 3, scene 2, calling down a judgment of the heavens upon the wicked. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipt of... | |
 | James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...beyond the more generalized railing of traditional revengers and makes them as satiric as Timon's: Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd... | |
 | William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 pages
...thought-executing fires" (II1.ii.1, 4), just as Kent's choral commentary, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard . . . , (III.0.46-48) reemerges at the same third-act point in Shadwell's play, where the Captain observes:... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...elements for Lear are also the couriers or ministers of the gods, and a few lines later he declares: Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. (3.2.49-51) He runs through a list of wretches who attempt to hide their... | |
 | Frank Walsh Brownlow - 1993 - 452 pages
...Shakespeare, on the other hand, presents his storm as an exorcism, with King Lear as its interpreter: Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipt of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...The wrathful skies And make them keep their caves. Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and...Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry Th'affliction nor the fear. LEAR Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads,... | |
 | Martha Finley - 1994 - 342 pages
...make our arrangements," added her mother. CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND. * Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder? Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard." — SHAKESPEARE. EARLY in the morning of a perfect June day, our numerous party arrived at the wharf... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 pages
...preoccupied. Similarly, in the storm scenes, Lear's excessive love of justice drives him to near-frenzy: Let the great gods That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch That has within the three undivulged crimes Unwhipt... | |
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Alas! sir, are you here? things that love night love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves. Since I was man such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of... 
