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Henrietta Christian Wright. Children's Stories in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Tennyson
Children's Stories in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Tennyson
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
SHAKESPEARE—SIXTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER II
BACON—SIXTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER III
MILTON—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IV
JOHN BUNYAN—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER V
THE ESSAY AND THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER VI
THE BIRTH OF THE NOVEL—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER VII
JONATHAN SWIFT—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER VIII
HISTORY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IX
JOHNSON—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER X
THE ROMANTIC NOVEL—NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XI
NINETEENTH CENTURY PROSE
CHAPTER XII
NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY
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Henrietta Christian Wright
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But the old king soon found that fair words do not always mean fair deeds, for Goneril and Regan had no love for him in their selfish hearts, and soon began to treat him very cruelly. One thing followed another, and at last Goneril told her steward to treat the king's servants with open disrespect, knowing well that her father would resent it, and when Lear chided her for it she told him that one hundred knights were too many for his service, and that he really needed but fifty. And at this King Lear got into a rage—as she knew he would—and declared he would go to Regan, who could never treat him so. Thereupon, he went to Regan, taking with him his train, and his fool, who still remained faithful to him, and one new attendant who had lately come and who was really Kent, in disguise, whose love and faithfulness could not suffer him to leave the country when he knew the king might need him at any moment.
But when they reached Regan's castle they found no entrance, for hearing that her father was coming, she had gone to the Duke of Gloucester's, a great nobleman of the land, as she wished to show him all the disrespect she could. And when Lear sent the disguised Kent on with letters, she put him in the stocks because he had drawn his sword upon Goneril's servant. Then when Lear arrived and told her how Goneril had treated him, she answered that Goneril was in the right, for he should be willing to dismiss all his knights and let his daughters' servants serve him if they so desired. Just then Goneril herself came in, having travelled thither in great haste, and with these and other unkind words, they showed him that their hearts were both unloving and cruel. Then the old king saw that although he loved these daughters and had given them all he had, yet they had no love for him, and their fair words had meant only a desire to gain the kingdom.
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