I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known : But thy... Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona - Page 23by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 714 pages
...savage, Kno\v thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known : But thy vile race,...how to curse : the red plague rid you, For learning me your language I Pro. Hag-seed, hence ! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou wert best, To answer... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...thing moat brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known : But thy vile race, Tho' thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures...this rock, Who had'st deserv'd more than a prison. Fetch us in fuel ; and be quick, thou wert best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice ?... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 610 pages
...savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known : But thy vile race,...abide to be with ; therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved more than a prison. Cal. You taught me language ; and my... | |
| Patrick MacDonell - 1840 - 74 pages
...of language ; but deeply impressed with the cruel usage he receives, Caliban remarks to Prospero — You taught me language — and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse ; the red-plague (5) rid you For learning me your language ! a rebuke, which Prospero evidently seems, at... | |
| Susan M. Collins, Carol L. Graham - 2005 - 348 pages
...discussed by both authors. She quoted Caliban, in Shakespeare's The Tempest, saying to his master Prospero, "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." She drew an analogy between language in Shakespeare's quote and technology in today's global economy.... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 2004 - 308 pages
...'known'). Caliban's famous reply to Prospero's speech (does EG intend the reader to remember it?) is: 'You taught me language; and my profit on't | Is, I know how to curse' (l. ii. 365-6). The change of wording endows the adolescent Gösse's purposes with greater agency.... | |
| Erica Fudge - 2004 - 264 pages
...Miranda, is to teach him how to speak. In Caliban's case, speech allows him to attack his benefactor: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse." Prospero represents the failure of his project as the impossibility of inculcating superior human values... | |
| David Mura - 2004 - 124 pages
...its lies, Oh damn those ugly heathens; Damn their beauty and their spies, And take me back to heaven. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. . . . Oh Mr. Motto Fu Manchu Kung Fu ninja chopping you Charlie Chan chink and jap man —The Tempest... | |
| Gerd Bayer - 2004 - 316 pages
...Sorgfalt nicht profitieren kann; sein neuerworbenes Wissen ist ihm wenig dienlich, wie er selbst anmerkt: "You taught me language, and my profit on't // Is, I know how to curse."68 Caliban ist so gesehen ein Vorläufer der Angry Young Men. Der Caliban und Clegg gemeinsame... | |
| John Edgar Wideman - 2005 - 212 pages
...savage, Know thine own meaning, but would gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race,...not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, who hadst Deserved more than a prison. There it is, children. The spumed woman... | |
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