 A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none, on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy ! — I see the business.  The Works - Page 209by George Crabbe - 1823Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1864 - 648 pages
...'Pray you, away. Edm. I do serve you in this business. — \ l-'.iii EDGAR. A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing...That he suspects none ; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy ! I see the business. — Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit ; All with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1972 - 356 pages
...Shall I hear from you anon? EDMUND I do serve you in this business. Exit Edgar A credulous father and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing...That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy - I see the business: Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...credulity which produces his own plight and his father Gloucester's cruel treatment. Edmund calls Edgar a brother noble Whose nature is so far from doing harms That he suspects none. It is Eve and the serpent again. It was a bold stroke of Shakespeare's to bring together Edgar, feigning... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...us of Edmund's phrases in King Lear when he congratulates himself on having 'A credulous father! and a brother noble,/ Whose nature is so far from doing...That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty/ My practices ride easy' (i, ii, 170-3). in his love for her that prompts and enables her so warmly to... | |
 | James Breech - Religion - 1983 - 264 pages
...capable of paying attention to other values than merely self-preservation. Like Edgar in King Lear, "whose nature is so far from doing harms that he suspects none," the rich man does not suspect his steward. Initially, charges were brought to him by others that the... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...is (for the benefit of the audience) characterized as a thoroughly honest and unsuspecting person: a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing...That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy - (1.2.. 175-8) 85 For Shakespeare and the dramatists of his period, this is the... | |
 | William R. Elton - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...Oswald, he is billed on the Quarto's title page with the titular hero. Initially delineated by Edmund as a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing...That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! (I.ii. 186-189) Edgar is, like the king, more trustful than Cordelia; his is a... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - American literature - 1991 - 364 pages
..."and that done, if it be possible, learn virtue" (362). Like the "noble" Edgar, Leonatus has a "nature so far from doing harms / That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty" the hypocrite's "practices ride easy" (I.ii.172-75). As Edmund will find, in a wicked world, honesty,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...of the sky' (2.3.1 1-12), anticipating Lear's experience in the storm. An earl's son, one who is so 'noble, / Whose nature is so far from doing harms / That he suspects none' (1.2.151-3), Edgar is reduced to emulating 'Poor Turlygod! Poor Tom', a crazed scrvingman who claims... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...hear from you anon? EDMUND I do serve you in this business. [Exit Edgar. 170 A credulous father; and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing...That he suspects none — on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy. I see the business. Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit: All with me's... | |
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