...lawn. -The little dogs and all. Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart, sec, they bark at me! cried Braccbridgc, laughing. At the sound of his voice, the bark was...family mansion, partly thrown in deep shadow, and partly lit up by the cold moonshine. It was an irregular building of some magnitude, and seemed to...

...of a hostile and threatening world into a child's cry of abandonment when his very pets turn on him: The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me. (11. 62-63) After Edgar provides the comfort appropriate for a frightened child, casting his spell...

...dog on the lawn profited by the stillness to yap out loudly, and the echo ran through my mind: ". . . the little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me." Kamante, who had been put in charge of the tobacco that was to have been dealt out to the Ancients...

...to retain? EDGAR [Aside] My tears begin to take his part so much They'll mar my counterfeiting. LEAR The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart - see, they bark at me. 55 EDGAR Tom will throw his head at them. - Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth...

...rags, "a semblance / That very dogs disdained" (5.3.191-92), liiuls an equivalent in Lear's vision of "the little dogs and all, / Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me" (3.6.61-62). Lear now sees in a mirror, darkly, as he asks of Poor Tom, "Didst thou give all to thy...

...retain? EDGAR (aside) My tears begin to take his part so much 55 They'll mar my counterfeiting. LEAR The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart — see, they bark at me. EDGAR Tom will throw his head at them. — Avaunt, you curs! 43 she] Q2, BL2; notinQ1 47 join-stool]...

...however, and advanced a few paces. The lady's lap-dog pricked up its ears, and barked: he stopped again. "the little dogs and all Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see they bark at me!"1 His resolution failed; he slunk back, and locking the gate as softly as he could, stood on tiptoe...

...scene 1I "I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a one." (Julius Caesar, act 4, scene 31 "The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart — see, they bark at me." (King Lear, act 3. scene 5I "Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature...

...Shakespeare's attitude to dogs is ambivalent. They are often emblems of cowardice, betrayal, as in Lear: The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.4 Both the spaniel and the greyhound are usually, though not invariably, types of fawning sycophancy,...

...and advanced a few paces. The lady's lap-dog pricked up its ears, and barked; he stopped again"-The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see they bark at me!" His resolution failed; he slunk back, and, locking the gate as softly as he could, stood on tiptoe...