 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.  Miscellanies... - Page 48by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | India - 1857 - 434 pages
...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 us some remarks on Lear as an acting... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...lord, — Kent. Break, heart ; I pr'y thee, break ! Edg. 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. Edg. 0, he is gone, indeed. Kent. The wonder is he hath endured BO long : He but usurped his life.... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...ghost. O ! let him pass. He hates him That would, upon the rack of this rough world, Stretch hi™ out longer. Hush, strife and quarrel, over the solemn...Fall, dark curtain, upon his pageant, his pride, his griefs, his awful tragedy ! Newspaper notice of Thackeray's Lectures on the Geor9es. MARCO BOZZARIS.*... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...!— Kent. Break, heart ; I pr'y thee, break * ! Edg. Look up, my lord. Kent. Vex not his ghost : oh ! let him pass : he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world ' Stretch him out longer. Edg. He is gone, indeed. * And my poor fool is hang'd !] It has been disputed whether, in these words,... | |
 | John William Cole - Motion picture actors and actresses - 1859 - 810 pages
...sympathise with Kent, when he closes the play with these impressive words : — " Vex not his ghost ; oh, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." In by-gone days the catastrophe was reversed, winding up with the happy marriage of Edgar and Cordelia... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...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 long: He but usurp'd his life. Alb.... | |
 | John William Cole - Theater - 1859 - 416 pages
...sympathise with Kent, when he closes the play with these impressive words : — " Vex not his ghost ; oh, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." In by-gone days the catastrophe was reversed, winding up with the happy marriage of Edgar and Cordelia... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...her breathless lips and cries, ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! ' ' Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the...his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy Г 0 "«Into this last." II.— ТПЕ VEINS OF WEALTH. THE answer which would be made by any ordinary... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1860 - 266 pages
...her breathless lips and cries, 'Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little !' " ' Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the...his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy !" H2 GEORGE THE FOURTH. THE BOYAL GEORGE. IV. GEORGE THE FOURTH. IN Twiss's amusing Life of Eldon,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...her breathless lips and cries, ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! ' ' Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the...Quarrel, over the solemn grave ! Sound, Trumpets, a maurnful march. Fall, Dark Curtain, upon his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy ! 0 ''Unto... | |
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