 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pągines
...undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 65 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come,... | |
 | Hugh Grady, Professor of English Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pągines
...such, it is fitting that he defines the last, after-the-deluge sombre mood with which the play ends:6 6 The weight of this sad time we must obey. Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. {v. iii. 324-7) We can detect in the first couplet a suggestion of a refusal to revert back to the... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 889 pągines
...iii, 322-323) He anticipates joining Lear in death. Edgar then prepares to move the kingdom forward: The weight of this sad time we must obey. Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V, iii, 324-327) Edgar seems to feel that Lear's life has taught others who will follow, and this... | |
 | Simon Shaw - 1997 - 228 pągines
...opinions had usually been right. He had possessed a fund of sense and had been good company personified. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. Philip stood alone in his living room, thinking lines of remembrance, while Verdi's Requiem issued... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 pągines
...storm and a friend and kinsman of its victims, addresses the remaining English forces in King Lear: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (v. iii. 325-8) Here, in accordance with the changed circumstances, explicit retelling - 'Speak what... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 pągines
...the final speech by virtue of his position; in the Folio Edgar makes it by virtue of his character: The weight of this sad time we must obey: Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. In a good production, there will be the feeling that nobody quite knows what to say, but something... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Professor Department of English Daniel Fischlin - 1998 - 418 pągines
...Doughtie's note, 449-51. 59. This same subordination is at the core of the concluding lines of King Lear: "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak...young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long" (5.3.324-28; The Riverside Shakespeare, 1295; emphasis added). 60. Doughtie, Lyrics, 312. 61. Ibid.,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pągines
...sustain. KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go. My master calls me; I must not say no. EDGAR 330 The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...much, nor live so long. Exeunt with a dead march. 320 ghost spirit 321 rack a torture instrument 327 gored wounded FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR... | |
 | Bruce G. Shapiro - 1999 - 250 pągines
...the drama. In addition, the second verse of this line is significant only as it relates to Cordelia: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...young Shall never see so much, nor live so long." Another example of the iconic rule of symbolic reflection appears in William Inge's Come Back Little... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pągines
...So it must be Albany and Edgar. The doubts about them surface into the last four lines of the play: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. The Quarto gives these lines to Albany. In the Folio, a virtually unchanged text assigns the lines... | |
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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. 
