Then Edward Lear, who wrote The Owl and the Pussycat, also handed him a handwritten note to Mrs. Fields.

By the aid of these skilful physicians, to whom Cordelia promised all her gold and jewels for the recovery of the old king, Lear was soon in a condition to see his daughter.

Lear did not long survive this kind child.

Both the guiding motive of his prose-poem (it is his as truly as King Lear is Shakespeare's), and the furore of welcome which greeted it, may be understood by recalling the position of the sentimental school on the eve of its appearance.

So in King Lear, act v. sc.

They are for a poor woman and her suffering children, who live about a square from here in Lear's Court.

2. 76-i. 24; Julius Caesar, i. 2. 92-i. 180, n. 1 King Lear, ii. 2. 17-iv. 26, n. 2; ii. 2. 160-ii. 446, n. 3; ii. 4. 18-iii. 381, n. 1; iii. 4. 140-v. 145, n. 1; Love's Labour Lost, ii. 1. 66-iv. 97, n. 1; Macbeth, i. 3. 72-v. 119, n. 4; ii. 2. 12-ii. 322; ii. 3. 91-i. 299; ii. 4. 12-i. 263, n. 3; iii. 4. 17-ii.

The tragedy of King Lear.

This great stage: image and structure in King Lear.

His correspondence with Tobias Lear, for many years his private secretary, are now in the collection of Thomas K. Bixby, a wealthy bibliophile of St. Louis.

[Footnote 4: George Powell, who in 1711 and 1712 appeared in such characters as Falstaff, Lear, and Cortez in 'the Indian Emperor,' now

The best Plays of this Kind are 'The Orphan', 'Venice Preserved', 'Alexander the Great', 'Theodosius', 'All for Love', 'OEdipus', 'Oroonoko', 'Othello', &c. 'King Lear' is an admirable Tragedy of the same Kind, as 'Shakespear' wrote it; but as it is reformed according to the chymerical Notion of Poetical Justice, in my humble Opinion it has lost half its Beauty.

The passionate Character of King Lear, as it is admirably drawn by Shakespear, abounds with the strongest Instances of this kind. 'Death!

He was no Lear, as the gift of the farm might suggest, but sealed of the tribe of the Wandering Jewa tremulous old giddy-gaddy.

When a subject differed from his master, the loyal path for him to pursue was to use every available means to persuade him of his error, as Kent did to King Lear.

When we come out from a performance of the 'Midsummer Night's Dream' we feel as near to the stars as when we come out from 'King Lear.'

I think Lear must have married twice.

A wonderful organizer, a good actor (oddly enough, the more difficult the part the better he isI like his Lear), and a man who has always been associated with high endeavor, Frank Benson's name is honored all over England.

In "King Lear" Mrs. Nettleship made him a most beautiful cloak, but he insisted on wearing a brilliant purple velvet cloak with spangles all over it which swamped his beautiful make-up and his beautiful acting.

MONMOUTH, GEOFFREY, a Welsh priest of the 12th century, compiler of what he called a "History of the Early Kings of Britain," from that of Brut, through the story of King Arthur and others, such as King Lear, down to that of Cadwallo, a Welsh king, who died in 689.

"THE PLAY OF KING LEIR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS": the old play on the subject of King Lear.

" King Lear.

In connection with this subject he thought rather of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello, of Byron's Marino Falierohe had early experimented with this hero himselfand this was the time of his first thorough study of Lope de Vega.

Ophelia is charming, Brutus is grave, Cordelia is serene; are we then to suppose that Hamlet, and Julius Caesar, and King Lear give expression to the same mood of high tranquillity which is betrayed by Cymbeline, The Tempest, and The Winter's Tale?

At King Lear, indeed, she had to draw the line.