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" I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them... "
The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ... - Page 85
by John Galt - 1824 - 444 pages
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A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels: Volume I, Part Two (Exorcism ...

James Hastings - Reference - 2004 - 396 pages
...metaphorical use of the word ' halt ' similar to that of ' lame ') ; HO Richard III., Ac. I. Sc. i.— ' Sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce...so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as 1 halt by them.' ' Halt ' is the tr. of \u\it in Mt 18', Mk 9", Lk 14", Jn 5s ; but the translators...
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Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance

Ralf Remshardt - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 334 pages
...man," as expressed perhaps most forcefully in the lines of Richard III, who finds himself "[djeform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time / Into this breathing world, scarce half made up" (Richard HI 1.1.20-21). Richard is what I referred to earlier — in regard to the imaginary humanoid...
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Christopher Booker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 748 pages
...curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfiinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up ... Have no delight to pass away the time Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own...
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Reader's Digest the Truth about History: How New Evidence is Transforming ...

History - 2003 - 326 pages
...(above) was not the deformed hunchback described by Shakespeare and portrayed by Antony Sher (right). Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time... -Richard III DISCOVERING HISTORY Under the influence Shakespeare dramatized the reigns of six English...
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Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory

Herbert Grabes - 2005 - 408 pages
...dismiss (the rumour of Richard's monstrous birth, for instance) we get unequivocal self-declaration: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated...time Into this breathing world scarce half made up [...] (Ii18-21) This time, it seems, the history-literature opposition can be usefully applied and...
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The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social ...

Betty M. Adelson - History - 2005 - 482 pages
...was arguably a dwarf himself) . He expresses his self-hatred in the following celebrated soliloquy: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion Cheated...time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up . . . since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove...
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The Shakespeare Project: An Arsenal of Scenes and Speeches from the Pen of ...

James Zager, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 70 pages
...looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfmish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and...
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Cosmetic Surgery Today

Dimitrije E. Panfilov - Medical - 2005 - 232 pages
...with negative characteristics. This extract from Shakespeare's Richard III is a typical example: "/, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Ugliness makes you lonely Richard III Psychoanalytic polarities...
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Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

S©ıren Kierkegaard - History - 2006 - 101 pages
...explanation. I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated...and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.172 Iyo A fairy tale ogre created by the French writer, Charles Perrault (1628-1703), in Les contes...
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Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages

Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - Health & Fitness - 2006 - 597 pages
...somehow, happen. Times Literary Supplement DEFORMITY William Shakespeare; 1592 694 I, that am eurtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling...unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.... Richard III, Act I, Scene i Francis Bacon; 1625 695 Deformed persons are commonly even with nature;...
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