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Page 112 of 1121904 · PDF PAGE 53
… ful top ! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, w ith lameness ! Y ou nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames Into her scornful eyes !” With this he makes his age contemp- tible by the drivel-pathos of ll. 156-158, “Dear daughter, I confess that I am old ; Age is unnecessary : on my knees I beg ( Kneeling) That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food,” begging what none ever thought to deny him. Yet such is the patience of G oneril that even when goaded by all this infamous B illingsgate into speech, her rebuke is the temperate and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
… all, here as in all the universe, of every subject and in every predicate, is a matter of degree. Our faculties never tell us true; our eyes say flat when our fingers say round; our tongue sends a set of impressions to our brain which our hearing declares non-existent—and so on. What is this delusion of personality but a profound and centrally-seating intoxication of the consciousness ? I am intoxicated as I address these words; you are drunk—beastly drunk !—as you read them; Buddha was as drunk as a British officer when he uttered his besotte…