...basins or ponds filled with water, which in the hot summer months simmers down and becomes stagnant, ."Thou, .Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound," .will be his declaration. of independence, But, "He that would be. free himself must strike the blow/'...

...motion. As a bastard, a natural child, Edmund views himself as a partisan of nature against convention: Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me,...

...as a witty knave and attacks his first soliloquy in high spirits, with a dash of chivalric bitters: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law/ My services are bound" (1.2.1-2). More than the oath of a pagan devotee of anarchy, this is a courtly lover's tender of secret...

...aside, soliloquy and apostrophe. Edgar's invocation of nature is a well-known example of apostrophe: - Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. (Lear I, ii, 1 f.) Another example from King Lear is his invocation of the elements in his soliloquy...

...generous and broad-minded father! It is no wonder, then, that Edmonds vengeance is dedicated to a mother: Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law My services are bound. (i.2.i-2)9s As for Lear's vulnerable old age, Bradley is not aware that there is also a type of senility...

...maintenir, s'enjolive de métaphysique et se voile de ce « brouillard sacré » dont parle Franz Moor. Thou, Nature art my Goddess, to thy Law / My services are bound (« Nature, c'est toi mon dieu ! à ta loi je me livre" ») : tels sont ses premiers mots. Et en parlant...

...legitimate brother, Edgar, and usurp his inheritance. Edmund, too, is a worshiper of Mother Nature: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound" (I.ii.1). But this is not the nature that guarantees the ties of kinship, what Lear calls "Propinquity...

...at any special therapeutic shrine, to pay your vows to Natute, taking the motto of Edmund in Lear, 'Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law my services are bound.' The third lesson is that the functions of the physician are to co-operate with Nature, to aid her where...

...something, and i' th' heat. 312 Exeunt. °*> 1.2 Enter Bastard [Edmund, solus, with a letter]. EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit 3 The curiosity of nations to deprive...

...on't. GONERIL We must do something, and i' th' heat. 295 * ^ I.2 Enter Bastard [Edmund] solus. EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess. To thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Exeunt. Stand in the plague of custom and permit 3 The curiosity of nations to deprive...