 | George Farren - 1826 - 128 Seiten
...reflection serves only to increase his tortures, and he feels an apprehension of supervening insanity : Oh ! let me not be mad — not mad, sweet Heaven ! Keep me in temper — I would not be mad. In many states of mental affliction, this presentiment is not u-ncommon.... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 Seiten
...time. /,..,>.-. How's that? FOH/. Thou should'st not have been old before Hum had'gt been wise. Lear. Oh! let me not be mad! not mad, sweet Heaven ! Keep me in temper, I would not be mad." How subtle and fine was Shakspeare's knowledge of the human mind !... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 594 Seiten
...long before insanity breaks out, have presentiments of their fate. It is now that Lear exclaims, ' Oh, let me not be mad ! not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper — I would not be mad." Nor when the physical malady becomes more intense — after he finds... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 586 Seiten
...long before insanity breaks out, have presentiments of their fate. It is now that Lear exclaims, ' Oh, let me not be mad ! not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper — I would not be mad.' Nor when the physical malady becomes more intense — after he finds... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 Seiten
...long before insanity breaks out, have presentiments of their fate. It is now that Lear exclaims, ' Oh, let me not be mad ! not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper — I would not be mad.' Nor when the physical malady becomes more intense — after he finds... | |
 | 1857 - 848 Seiten
...Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been wise." And Lear's passionate invocation— " Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven '. Keep me in temper : I would not be mad." Lear arrives before Gloster's castle, to which Regan, and her husband... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 Seiten
...thy time. Lear. How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. Lear. Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman. How now ! Are the horses ready ? ' — yet I... | |
 | Abner Otis Kellogg - 1866 - 364 Seiten
...reminds him that he should not have been old before he was wise, he says, apparently abstracted : — " Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; 1 would not be mad ! " It is one of the most common things in the world to find a man decidedly... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - 1871 - 788 Seiten
...anguish, prayerfully, and in accents of wild and frenzied despair, to ejaculate with King Lear : " Oh ! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven ; Keep me in temper — I would not be mad." CAUSES OF INSANITY. All that disturbs, excites, or weakens the organization,... | |
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Oh, let me not be mad ! not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper — I would not be mad. 
