 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1972 - 174 pages
...BEECHEE, MD, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Dr. BEECHER. Thank you, Senator. In "King Lear," Shakespeare wrote, "Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass ! he hates him...rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." As physicians we are concerned with life, its protection and prolongation and, when it is attacked... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1972 - 620 pages
...BEECHER, MD, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Dr. BEECHER. Thank you, Senator. In "King Lear," Shakespeare wrote, "Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass ! he hates him...rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." As physicians we are concerned with life, its protection and prolongation and, when it is attacked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1972 - 356 pages
...EDGAR He faints. My lord, my lord! KENT Break, heart; I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord. 310 KENT Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR He is gone indeed. KENT The wonder is he hath endured so long. He but usurped his life. ALBANY... | |
 | Geoffrey Bullough - 1975 - 584 pages
...pitifully. As Kent says, 'All's cheerless, dark and deadly' and there is no alleviation save death itself: Vex not his ghost. O let him pass ! He hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (¥.3.316) And Albany reflects that this is an occasion which calls for no conventional condolences... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 pages
...Rather than die at once!" [V.iii.185-87]), death itself can also be a release from life's tortures: Vex not his ghost. O let him pass! He hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (V.iii.314-16) Cordelia's murder "prevents" the suicide to which history would lead her. If Lear is... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 pages
...(312.) And he turns on Edgar— in Brook's production fiercely— reviving the wheel-torture image: Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer (313-315). Kent brushes off Edgar's He is gone, indeed (315), that contrasts with Edgar's cool estimate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...faints. — My lord, my lord! 310 KENT Break, heart; I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord. KENT Vex not his ghost: O let him pass; he hates him, That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR He is gone indeed. KENT The wonder is he hath endured so long; He but usurped his life. ALBANY... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - 1995 - 396 pages
...utility of living.10 We need only recall Kent's comment when signs of life are noted in the dying Lear: "Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him...rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer." ' ' A right to seek assistance in committing suicide has value to the holder even if he never exercises... | |
 | John Jones - 1999 - 310 pages
...faints. [{To Lear)] My lord, my lord! LEAR. Break, heart, I prithee break. EDGAR. Look up, my lord. KENT. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR. O, he is gone indeed. To which Folio made two changes. It gave Lear the following words before... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...imagining, 'As flies to wanton boys, are we to th'gods, They kill us for their sport' (lv. i. 36-7): Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass, he hates him That...the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer, (v. iii. 314-16) But Lear himself, in a much debated last statement, asks for one more button to be... | |
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Vex not his ghost: — O, let him pass ! || he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. 
