...reascends his throne. Kent's simple eulogy does no more than accept the facts, and proposes no moral: He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. The world is an instrument of torture, and the only comfort is in the nothing, the never, of death....

...Lear, when signs of life were seen in the dying monarch. "Vex not his ghost; Ol let him pass; he hate him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer."28 The Second Circuit The narrower reasoning of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals led it...

...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 of clothes. In the opening scene all...

...Fool, his sad work done, has long since vanished. When someone tries to stir Lear to life, Kent says, "He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer," and hints that he himself will soon be following him. But it is of course Cordelia's death — within...

...else a long time ago. BJ: 127 Something was grotesquely wrong. He opened his Shakespeare. ". . . O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." "The rack," he murmured. "Haydon forgot the rack." And his mind still exercised by the strangeness...

...Macbeth (v. iii. 22) cries: 'I have lived long enough.' And Kent in King Lear: 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) And Timon: My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings...

...in which we are to understand this is clearly set forth in Kent's next words: Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (5.3.289-91) That is, Edgar should not attempt to detain Lear in this world, but allow his spirit to...

...statement. Moments after King Lear dies, at the end of the play, Kent declares, "Vex not his ghost. O. let him pass! He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer." Lear's sufferings have been so great, and dramatized so stunningly, that audiences readily agree with...

...Clemens-Mark Twain's familial life can be found in lines at the end of King Lear: 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. EDGAR: He is gone indeed. KENT: The wonder is, he hath endured so long: He but usurpt his life. ALBANY:...

...Monday 10: April 1809. The Earl of Kent in Shakespeare's King Lear said not more truly that You say He hates him; That would upon the Rack of this tough World Stretch him out longer Yet Kent's next Speech and his last come closer to my Heart, perhaps my Destination. 1 —Well! no...