lear

Speech parts

1. lear - Noun

2. lear - Adjective

3. lear - Verb

4. Lear - Proper noun

Meaning

To learn. See Lere, to learn.

Lore; lesson.

See Leer, a.

An annealing oven. See Leer, n.

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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. William Butler Yeats

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. W. H. Auden

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. Peter Ustinov

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written. Noël Coward

Quhen the Play is best, it is best to lear. Scottish Proverb

Lear young, lear fair. Scottish Proverb

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