 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 412 pages
...tragedy ends with Edgar's words - in another quarto given to Albany - which leave the future open: weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V, 3, 322-5) The only certainty is that an epoch has come to an end and it is final. The ending of... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2003 - 332 pages
...romantic retirement. The closing lines of the play familiar to us from modern editions as Edgar's: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long 10. - for a century and a half reappeared in a radically altered form, though still spoken (as in the... | |
 | Marilyn Schroeder - 2005 - 133 pages
...glance around the room. I knew she could see only light and shadow. I read the last lines of King Lear. "The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." I closed the book. The tears that ran down my cheeks were not for Lear. Susan reached to pat Pinon's... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
...sustain. Kent: I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: My master calls me, I must not say no. Edgar: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." (5.3.319-27) The state is "gor'd" in that it is covered by gore; life in England is violent and bloody.... | |
 | 1984 - 472 pages
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 | Darryl Accone - 2004 - 300 pages
...to the sky. Here, Giddy and Julie thought, it was as if they were living all under heaven. EPILOGUE The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. - King Lear, Act V, Scene iii, lines 325 to 328 On holidays at the coast, Ah Leong would stand looking... | |
 | 1984 - 456 pages
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 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
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The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
