 | David Thomas - 1874 - 790 pages
...mode. It is going to— " The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns." (') Again, men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither — " Ripeness is all come on." (:) " He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, And slept in peace."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 504 pages
...thy hand, come on. Glo. No further, sir; a man may rot even here. Edg. What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all 2 : Come on. Glo. And that's true too. [Exeunt. SCENE III. The British Camp near DOVER. Enter, in Conquest,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 518 pages
...thy hand, come on. Glo. No further, sir ; a man may rot even here. Edg. What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all2 : Come on. Glo. And that's true too. [Exeunt. SCENE III. The British Camp near DOvER. Enter, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 590 pages
...hand ; come on. Glo. No farther, sir : a man may rot even here. Edg. What! in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all. Come on. Glo. And that's true too. [Exeunt. SCENE III.—The British Camp near Dover. Enter, as in... | |
 | Elizabeth Mary Alford - 1878 - 228 pages
...!" she cried out in bitter grief. " Can any cause, Master Lawrence, excuse such awful bloodshed r " Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all," replied the tutor, in his favourite Will Shakspere's words. " Aye, but were they all ripe ?" asked... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1879 - 464 pages
...* Compare also, as expressing the mood in which calamity must be confronted the words of Edgar, — Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither ; Ripeness is all. cry ' We are come.' " * The play or the piece of music is not a code of precepts, or a body of doctrine... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all. — Ibid., v. 2. Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all. — Lear, v. 2. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. — Ibid.,... | |
 | Harry Levin - 2000 - 170 pages
...picking tip Gloucester's negative image, transposes it into the most positive statement of the play: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. Edgar's aphorism can be traced back to Montaigne's essay, "That to philosophize is to learn how to... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 pages
...now, having learned to love life, he had to prepare for death. Edgar had told Gloucester in King Lear: Men must endure their going hence, Even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. (5.2) Maturity, not eternity, should be our goal. On March 25, 1616, Shakespeare made his will. In... | |
 | A. James Reichley - 2002 - 312 pages
...sport" (King Lear). Some of Shakespeare's characters rebut nihilism with the Stoic version of humanism: "Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither, / Ripeness is all" (Lear). And some with Augustinian Christianity: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends / Rough-hew... | |
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