| William Shakespeare - 1856 - 390 sider
...faints ! My lord, my lord, — Kent. Break, heart ; I prithee, break ! Edg. Look up, my lord. 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. Edg. He is gone, indeed. Kent. The wonder is he hath endur'd so... | |
| Henry James (of New York.) - 1857 - 284 sider
...hangs over her breathless lips, and calls — Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Vex not his ghost, 0 ! let him pass, he hates him That would upon the rack of this rough world Stretch him out longer. Hush strife and quarrel over the solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march. Fall, dark curtain,... | |
| 1857 - 434 sider
...Her death loosens Lear's last hold of life ; his longer retention here would be a cruel mockery — " Vex not his ghost : O let him pass ; he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." The most charming of essayists and genial of critics, has left... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
...before him, old Lear hangs over her breathless lips, and calls — ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little." Vex not his ghost. O ! let him pass. He hates him...would, upon the rack of this rough world, Stretch hi™ out longer. Hush, strife and quarrel, over the solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1858 - 364 sider
...which the deep dread-bolted thunders and the winged lightnings had spent their fury ? 0 never, never! Let him pass ! he hates him That would upon the rack of this rough world Stretch him out longer. In the story of King Lear and his three daughters, as it is related in the " delectable and mellifluous"... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 sider
...He dies, and indeed we feel the truth of what Kent says on the occasion — " Vex not his ghost : 0, let him pass ! he hates him, That would upon the rack...poetry and feeling are concerned, has given it in favor of Shakspeare, in some remarks on the acting of Lear with which we shall con elude this account.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 sider
...faints ! — My lord, my lord ! — Kent. Break, heart; I pr'ythee, break! Edg. Look up, my lord. 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. Edg. He is gone, indeed. Kent. The wonder is, he hath endur'd so... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 sider
...! — My lord ! my lord ! — KENT. Break, heart, I pr'ythee, break ! EDO. Look up, my lord. KENT. r k tough world Stretch him out longer. EDO. He is gone, indeed. KENT. The wonder is, he hath endur'd so... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 sider
...! — My lord ! my lord ! — KKNT. Break, heart, I pr'ythee, break ! EDO. Look up, my lord. KENT. ledge & Co. tough world Stretch him out longer. EDG. He is gone, indeed. KENT. The wonder is, he hath endur'd so... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 sider
...faints ! — My lord, my lord, — Kent. Break, heart ; I pr'ythee, brjak ! Edg. Look up, my lord. Kent. Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass ! he hates him,...the rack of this rough world Stretch him out longer. Edg. O, he is gone, indeed. Kent. The wonder is, he hath endured so long : He but usurp'd his life.... | |
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