 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 σελίδες
...Written in a Country Churchyard," st. 1-2 (1751). Repr. in Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). Events O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Kent,... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 σελίδες
...Kent's compassionate injunction explicitly touches on this theme of acceptance: 'Vex not his ghost: O let him pass! He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer' (v. iii. 315-17). Edgar earlier touched upon the same theme as... | |
 | Charles Olson - 1997 - 492 σελίδες
...the tale of Ahab's tragedy as Kent remained to speak these last words of Lear: Vex not his ghost. 0, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. A Moby-Dick manuscript It is beautifully right to find what I take... | |
 | Russell K. Portenoy, Eduardo Bruera - 1997 - 380 σελίδες
...final scene of King Lear, one of his attendants says about the dying Lear: "Vex not his ghost — Oh let him pass; he hates him that would upon the rack of this tough world stretch him out longer."2 Meaningful prolongation of life is unlikely to occur with enteral... | |
 | George J. Annas - 1998 - 332 σελίδες
...lines from King Lear, spoken immediately after Lear dies, to buttress its argument: "Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him/ That would upon the rack of this tough world/Stretch him out longer." Courts almost never resort to quoting literature, and when they... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 334 σελίδες
...comes through an intense psychic shock that is, as Kent perceives, the equivalent of a mercy killing: O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (5.3.289-91) The secret agent of this death is neither an enemy... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 σελίδες
...suffering the confirmation of an optimistic faith; Kent will always rebuke him: 'Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him | That would upon the rack of this tough world | Stretch him out longer' (F, 5. 3. 289-91). All we know for a certainty is that Cordelia... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 σελίδες
...lord ! 305 LEAR Break, heart, I prithee break . EDGAR Look up, my lord . KENT Vex not his ghost. 0, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. [Lear dies] EDGAR 0, he is gone indeed. 310 KENT The wonder is... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - 2001 - 114 σελίδες
...molten lead. (Act IV, Sc. vi, lines 43-45) and Kent's remark to Edgar, again in reference to Lear: O let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (Act V, Sc. iii, lines 287-289) Of equal importance are images... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2002 - 436 σελίδες
...his case it's a pity; it would be far better if he died'37 ('The wonder is he hath endured so long'; 'He hates him / That would upon the rack of this rough world / Stretch him out longer'38). Thus the ravings of Goriot are rendered doubly impotent. The ironies of what follows demand... | |
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Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. 
