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.

Ah, Heavens, those Eyesthat Look,that pretty Leer,that my Father shou'd be so doating an old Fool to think these Beauties fit for a little Merchandize; a Marchioness wou'd so much better become me.

Phinuit suggested with a leer.

He lurched into the room with a tipsy leer, and nodded to them with an affectation of extreme sobriety, which is unfortunately always assumed by the individual who is hopelessly intoxicated.

As he looked he beheld this fellow go straight to the great cabin, where he disappeared with a cunning leer upon his face, so that our hero could not but be aware that the purpose of the eavesdropper must be to communicate all that he had overheard to his master.

They had made him pay with the extreme penalty for his treachery; and yet in the flickering candle-light the stricken face, blood-spattered though it was, seemed to leer slyly, as if in the knowledge that they had been cheated in the end.

There the glutton, and here the sot; now the eye fell on the mean pander or the roystering boon-companion; now on the wit, looking with a roguish leer upon his fair neighbour, or the miserable wretch maudlin in his cups; and again on the knave profiting by the recklessness of those around him.

In one of his late satires, The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, he charged Addison with the inclination to "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

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Old Koogah dropped an open leer to Opee-Kwan, and, the laughter growing around him, continued: "The wind blows from the south and blows the schooner south.

''Ay,' said my lord, with a knowing leer, 'tick, tick.'

To see eyes once bright with intelligence growing vacant and confused and giving place to the drunkard's leer.

As they watched, the sullenness of expression was supplanted by a leer, and then by a mask of professional placiditythe bovine expression which one expects to find in the average specimen of masculine hired help.

Das Herz ist gestorben, die Welt ist leer,

He had long lank legs, long arms, hands, and fingers, and a very long sickly face, with a drooping nose, and a sly, sarcastic leer, and a great purplish stain over-spreading more than half of one cheek.

Marcella Bligh's thin hooked nose was now like the beak of a bird of prey over the face of the drowned man, upon whose eyelids she was placing penny-pieces, to keep them from opening; and her one eye was fixed on her work, its sightless companion showing white in its socket, with an ugly leer.

By Dola De Jong (Dola De Jong Van Leer), pictures by Jane Castle.

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LEAVITT, STURGIS E. Vamos a leer!

(Tournour makes a leer of contempt)

He had, I observed, a polite Discerning hid under a shrewd Rusticity: He delivered the Paper with a Yorkshire Tone and a Town Leer.

" He pocketed the money, and showed them, out, standing to look after them with a malicious leer as they disappeared, and jerking his left thumb over his shoulder.

And by the door stood Billy, watching them all like an evil spirit, with a leer of saturnine malice on his evil face.

Moreover, there was every variety of villainous aspect; the savage scowl of the desperado, the cunning leer of the trickster, and the sordid look of the mean knave.

" He seemed to calm abruptly after this, put up his pistol, and resumed the wicked leer.

If we take, for the sake of example, such a line as Pope's 'Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,' the test is comparatively simple.