| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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