Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods... Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Page 211by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...chair might hear him repeating from Shakespeare, : " Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods." and from Milton, Who would lose, i For fear of pain, this intellectual being ! On the 4th of April,... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...Ay, but to die, and go vre know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; Tliis sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted...To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; " Aye, but to die, and go we know not where : " To lie in cold obstruction,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...fearful thing. hab. And shamed life a hateful. CYau. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be iutprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...says my brother ? Claudia. Death ia a fearful thing. Isabella. And shamed life a hateful. Claudia. Aye, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie...To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling legions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewlesi winds, And blown with restless violence... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 pages
...contrasted almost immediately afterwards with his fine description of death as the worst of ills: To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice. 'Tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 358 pages
...She instanced the well-known lines of Shakspeare : ' Ay, but to die, and go we know not where j To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed icej To... | |
| 1820 - 438 pages
...Let him pass from excessive heat to waters of snow." Shakespeare has, perhaps, improved on the idea : Aye, but to die, and go we know not where, To lie...fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick ribb'd ice. Measure for Measure. TOL. I. M The following quotations from some of our first poets,... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 432 pages
...affecting as it is, cannot produce any thing. greater. Ay, but to die, and go we know not whither, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible,...fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick ribbed ice : To he imprisoned in the viewleas winds, Or blown, with restless violence, about... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...near his chair might hear him repeating from Shakspeare, Ay, but to die and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible...and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods i And from Milton, Who would lose, For fear of pain, this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs... | |
| Richard Harris Barham - 1820 - 532 pages
...but to die, and go we know not where ! This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod, and this delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice! It is too horrible! Aud will he not come again ? and will he not come again ? No, no, he is dead, gone... | |
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